Bigger, Faster?
Author(s) -
Benjamin Bray,
James T. Campbell,
Geoffrey Cloud,
Alex Hoffman,
Pippa Tyrrell,
Charles Wolfe,
Anthony Rudd
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.113.001981
Subject(s) - medicine , thrombolysis , odds ratio , emergency medicine , stroke (engine) , arrival time , fibrinolytic agent , audit , tissue plasminogen activator , logistic regression , odds , surgery , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , management , transport engineering , engineering , economics
There is evidence that high-volume hospitals may produce better patient outcomes. We aimed to identify whether there were any associations between hospital thrombolysis volume and speed of thrombolysis (tissue-type plasminogen activator [tPA]) administration in patients with ischemic stroke.
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