Door-in-Door-out Times for Interhospital Transfer of Patients With Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Treatments for time-sensitive acute stroke are not available at every hospital, often requiring interhospital transfer. Current guidelines recommend hospitals achieve a door-in-door-out time of no more than 120 minutes at the transferring emergency department (ED).

Objective

To evaluate door-in-door-out times for acute stroke transfers in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry and to identify patient and hospital factors associated with door-in-door-out times.

Design, setting, and participants

US registry-based, retrospective study of patients with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke from January 2019 through December 2021 who were transferred from the ED at registry-affiliated hospitals to other acute care hospitals.

Exposure<

SUBMITTER: Stamm B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427946 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature