Hospital Variation in Time to Endovascular Treatment for Ischemic Stroke: What Is the Optimal Target for Improvement?

ABSTRACT: Background Time to reperfusion in patients with ischemic stroke is strongly associated with functional outcome and may differ between hospitals and between patients within hospitals. Improvement in time to reperfusion can be guided by between-hospital and within-hospital comparisons and requires insight in specific targets for improvement. We aimed to quantify the variation in door-to-reperfusion time between and within Dutch intervention hospitals and to assess the contribution of different time intervals to this variation. Methods and Results We used data from the MR CLEAN (Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands) Registry. The door-to-reperfusion time was subdivided into time intervals, separately for direct patients (

SUBMITTER: den Hartog SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075196 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature