{"title":"Clinical advisor helps PA hospital make improvements.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A few years ago, only 40% of the patients at St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, PA, who were having an ST-elevation myocardial infarction received angioplasty within 120 minutes. Today, 100% of the patients are getting to the cath lab within the two-hour timeframe.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"123-4, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Performance improvement advisor","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A few years ago, only 40% of the patients at St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, PA, who were having an ST-elevation myocardial infarction received angioplasty within 120 minutes. Today, 100% of the patients are getting to the cath lab within the two-hour timeframe.