Door-to-needle time and the proportion of patients receiving intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke: uniform interpretation and reporting

Stroke. 2013 Nov;44(11):3249-53. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.001885. Epub 2013 Sep 19.
No abstract available

Keywords: door-to-needle time; performance measure; stroke; thrombolytic therapy.

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Intravenous / methods
  • Emergency Medicine / methods*
  • Emergency Medicine / standards
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Needles*
  • Recombinant Proteins / therapeutic use
  • Stroke / drug therapy*
  • Thrombolytic Therapy / methods*
  • Thrombolytic Therapy / standards
  • Time Factors
  • Time-to-Treatment*
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator / therapeutic use*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator