Prevalence and determinants of delays in care among premature deaths due to acute cardiac conditions and stroke in residents of a district in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of timely care is a predictor of poor outcomes in acute cardiovascular emergencies including stroke. We assessed the presence of delay in seeking appropriate care among those who died due to cardiac/stroke emergencies in a community in northern India and identified the reasons and determinants of this delay.

Methods

We conducted a social audit among all civil-registered premature (30-69 years) deaths due to acute cardiac event or stroke in the district. The three-delays model was used to qualitatively classify the delays in care-seeking-deciding to seek care, reaching the appropriate health facility (AHF) and initiating definitive treatment. Based on the estimated time from symptom onset to reaching AHF, we classified patients as early (reached within one hou

SUBMITTER: Krishnan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442961 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature