Can the wrong statistic be bad for health? Improving the reporting of door-to-needle time performance in acute myocardial infarction - 21/08/11
, Marian Vermeulen, MHSc a, Linda Donovan, BScN, MBA a, Alice Newman, MSc a, Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD, FRCPC a, b, dDr Schull is a New Investigator with the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and is funded by a grant from the Peter Lougheed Medical Research Foundation. Dr Tu is a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research. The EFFECT study was funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Riassunto |
Background |
Current acute myocardial infarction (AMI) guidelines call for reperfusion to be given to all eligible patients within a set time interval after hospital arrival, yet current hospital performance benchmarks are based on the median door-to-intervention time among treated patients. Our objective is to compare hospital performance rankings when door-to-needle time (DNT) is measured at the current benchmark (median ≤30 minutes) versus those obtained with more stringent benchmarks common for other AMI treatments.
Methods |
A secondary analysis of data from the EFFECT study from 52 small, community and teaching hospitals in Ontario. All Ontario hospital corporations that treated ≥30 patients with AMI from 1999 to 2001 participated. The charts of approximately 125 patients with AMI per hospital were reviewed; median and 85th percentile DNTs were then calculated for patients with ST-elevation AMI given thrombolysis at each site along with the proportion of patients thrombolysed within the recommended time. Hospitals were then ranked according to each indicator.
Results |
Data were obtained on 1578 patients given thrombolytic drugs at 52 hospitals. The median and 85th percentile DNTs were 37 and 82 minutes, respectively; the proportion of patients treated in ≤30 minutes ranged from 8.5% to 60%. Hospitals that achieved a median DNT of ≤30 minutes treated 40% to 50% of their patients outside that time frame. The ranks of the top 15 median DNT hospitals changed substantially when re-ranked according to the 85th percentile (average change in rank −16, range +6 to −40). If DNT improved such that a 30-minute median target was achieved, the estimated reduction for the average patient would be 13 minutes versus a 43-minute reduction if the 85th percentile target was achieved.
Conclusion |
Hospitals that achieve a 30-minute median DNT benchmark still treat 40% to 50% of their patients outside the recommended time, which is not consistent with current AMI treatment guidelines. Door-to-needle time for the average patient would be up to 43 minutes faster if the DNT target was achieved at the 85th percentile.
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Vol 150 - N° 3
P. 583-587 - settembre 2005 Ritorno al numero
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