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Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis
Reducing the treatment delay by organizing delivery of care on a regional basis is a priority for improving the quality of ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) care. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the combined measures on quality metrics of healthcare delivery in Suzhou. The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8200089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34199816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116045 |
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author | Ma, Junxiong Dong, Xuejie Jin, Yinzi Zheng, Zhi-Jie |
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description | Reducing the treatment delay by organizing delivery of care on a regional basis is a priority for improving the quality of ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) care. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the combined measures on quality metrics of healthcare delivery in Suzhou. The data were collected from the National Chest Pain Center (CPC) Data Reporting Database. 4775 patients were recruited, and after propensity-score matching, 1078 pairs were finally included for analysis. We examined the changes in quality metrics of care including prehospital and in-hospital processes, and clinic outcomes. Quality improvement (QI) implementation improved most process indicators. However, these improvements did not yield decreased in-hospital mortality. The door-to-balloon and the FMC-to-device time decreased from 85.0 and 98.0 min to 78 and 88 min, respectively (p < 0.001). Cases transferred directly via EMS had a greater improvement in most of process indicators. The proportion of patients transferred directly via EMS was 10.3%, much lower than that of self-transported patients at 58.3%. Tertiary hospitals showed greater performance improvement in process indicators than secondary hospitals. The percentage of cases using EMS remained low for suburban areas. The establishment of coordinated STEMI care needs to be accompanied with solving the fragmented situation of the prehospital and hospital care, and patient delay should be addressed, especially in suburban areas and on transferred-in inpatients. |
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spelling | pubmed-82000892021-06-14 Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis Ma, Junxiong Dong, Xuejie Jin, Yinzi Zheng, Zhi-Jie Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Reducing the treatment delay by organizing delivery of care on a regional basis is a priority for improving the quality of ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) care. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the combined measures on quality metrics of healthcare delivery in Suzhou. The data were collected from the National Chest Pain Center (CPC) Data Reporting Database. 4775 patients were recruited, and after propensity-score matching, 1078 pairs were finally included for analysis. We examined the changes in quality metrics of care including prehospital and in-hospital processes, and clinic outcomes. Quality improvement (QI) implementation improved most process indicators. However, these improvements did not yield decreased in-hospital mortality. The door-to-balloon and the FMC-to-device time decreased from 85.0 and 98.0 min to 78 and 88 min, respectively (p < 0.001). Cases transferred directly via EMS had a greater improvement in most of process indicators. The proportion of patients transferred directly via EMS was 10.3%, much lower than that of self-transported patients at 58.3%. Tertiary hospitals showed greater performance improvement in process indicators than secondary hospitals. The percentage of cases using EMS remained low for suburban areas. The establishment of coordinated STEMI care needs to be accompanied with solving the fragmented situation of the prehospital and hospital care, and patient delay should be addressed, especially in suburban areas and on transferred-in inpatients. MDPI 2021-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8200089/ /pubmed/34199816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116045 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ma, Junxiong Dong, Xuejie Jin, Yinzi Zheng, Zhi-Jie Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis |
title | Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis |
title_full | Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis |
title_fullStr | Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis |
title_short | Health Care Quality Improvement for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Study Based on Propensity-Score Matching Analysis |
title_sort | health care quality improvement for st-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a retrospective study based on propensity-score matching analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8200089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34199816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116045 |
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