Community Intent to Activate Emergency Medical Services May Be Associated with Regional tPA Treatment
© 2021 S. Karger AG, Basel..
INTRODUCTION: Acute stroke treatments are underutilized in the USA. Enhancing stroke preparedness, the recognition of stroke symptoms, and intent to call emergency medical services (EMS) could reduce delay in hospital arrival thereby increasing eligibility for time-sensitive stroke treatments. Whether higher stroke preparedness is associated with higher tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment rates is however uncertain. We therefore set out to determine the contribution of stroke preparedness to regional variation in tPA treatment.
METHODS: The region was defined by hospital service area (HSA). Stroke preparedness was determined by using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey questions assessing stroke symptom recognition and intent to call 911 in response to a stroke. We used Medicare data to determine the percentage of tPA-treated hospitalized stroke patients in 2007, 2009, and 2011, adjusting for number of stroke hospitalizations in each HSA (primary outcome). We performed multivariate linear regression to estimate the association of regional stroke preparedness on log-transformed tPA treatment rates controlling for demographic, EMS, and hospital characteristics.
RESULTS: The adjusted percentage of stroke patients receiving tPA ranged from 1.4% (MIN) to 11.3% (MAX) of stroke/TIA hospitalizations. Across HSAs, a median (IQR) of 86% (81-90%) of responses to a witnessed stroke indicated intent to call 911, and a median (IQR) of 4.4 (4.2-4.6) out of 6 stroke symptoms was recognized. Every 1% increase in an HSA's intent to call 911 was associated with a 0.44% increase in adjusted tPA treatment rate (p = 0.05). Lower accuracy of recognition of stroke symptoms was associated with higher adjusted tPA treatment rates (p = 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: There was little regional variation in intent to call EMS and stroke symptom recognition. Intent to call EMS and stroke symptom recognition are modest contributors to regional variation in tPA treatment.
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2022 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:51 |
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Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 51(2022), 2 vom: 30., Seite 207-213 |
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Englisch |
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Springer, Mellanie V [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 20.04.2022 Date Revised 02.01.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1159/000518729 |
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| 520 | |a INTRODUCTION: Acute stroke treatments are underutilized in the USA. Enhancing stroke preparedness, the recognition of stroke symptoms, and intent to call emergency medical services (EMS) could reduce delay in hospital arrival thereby increasing eligibility for time-sensitive stroke treatments. Whether higher stroke preparedness is associated with higher tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment rates is however uncertain. We therefore set out to determine the contribution of stroke preparedness to regional variation in tPA treatment | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: The region was defined by hospital service area (HSA). Stroke preparedness was determined by using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey questions assessing stroke symptom recognition and intent to call 911 in response to a stroke. We used Medicare data to determine the percentage of tPA-treated hospitalized stroke patients in 2007, 2009, and 2011, adjusting for number of stroke hospitalizations in each HSA (primary outcome). We performed multivariate linear regression to estimate the association of regional stroke preparedness on log-transformed tPA treatment rates controlling for demographic, EMS, and hospital characteristics | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: The adjusted percentage of stroke patients receiving tPA ranged from 1.4% (MIN) to 11.3% (MAX) of stroke/TIA hospitalizations. Across HSAs, a median (IQR) of 86% (81-90%) of responses to a witnessed stroke indicated intent to call 911, and a median (IQR) of 4.4 (4.2-4.6) out of 6 stroke symptoms was recognized. Every 1% increase in an HSA's intent to call 911 was associated with a 0.44% increase in adjusted tPA treatment rate (p = 0.05). Lower accuracy of recognition of stroke symptoms was associated with higher adjusted tPA treatment rates (p = 0.05) | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: There was little regional variation in intent to call EMS and stroke symptom recognition. Intent to call EMS and stroke symptom recognition are modest contributors to regional variation in tPA treatment | ||
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