Emergency Department Process Times and Door-In-Door-Out Times in Interhospital Transfers After Acute Ischemic Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Stroke treatment is exquisitely time sensitive. The door-in-door-out (DIDO) time, defined as the total time spent in the emergency department (ED) at a transferring hospital, is an important quality metric for the care of acute stroke. However, little is known about the contributions of specific process steps to delays and disparities in DIDO time.

Objective

To quantify process steps and their association with DIDO times at transferring hospitals among patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study analyzed patients in the American Heart Association Get With the Guidelines-Stroke registry with AIS presenting between January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021, and transferred from the presenting hospit

SUBMITTER: Royan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11372507 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature