Social and clinical vulnerability in stroke and STEMI management during the COVID-19 pandemic: a registry-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims to evaluate whether the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a deterioration in the quality of care for socially and/or clinically vulnerable stroke and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.

Design

Two cohorts of STEMI and stroke patients in the Aquitaine neurocardiovascular registry.

Setting

Six emergency medical services, 30 emergency units, 14 hospitalisation units and 11 catheterisation laboratories in the Aquitaine region in France.

Participants

This study involved 9218 patients (6436 stroke and 2782 STEMI patients) in the neurocardiovascular registry from January 2019 to August 2020.

Primary outcome measures

Care management times in both cohorts: first medical contact-to-procedure time for

SUBMITTER: Lesaine E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10773394 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature