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Three easily-implementable changes reduce median door-to-needle time for intravenous thrombolysis by 23 minutes

BACKGROUND: The benefit of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) for acute ischemic stroke is time dependent. Despite great effort, the median door-to-needle time (DNT) was 60 min at the United States stroke centers. We investigated the effect of a simple quality improvement initiative on DNT for IVT. METH...

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Autores principales: Tran, Demi, Zhu, Zhu, Shafie, Mohammad, Abcede, Hermelinda, Stradling, Dana, Yu, Wengui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1527-8