Door-to-needle time for thrombolysis: a secondary analysis of the TIPS cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study aimed to evaluate the effects of a multi-component in-hospital intervention on the door-to-needle time for intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke.

Design

This study was a post hoc analysis of door-to-needle time data from a cluster-randomised controlled trial testing an intervention to boost intravenous thrombolysis implementation.

Setting

The study was conducted among 20 hospitals from three Australian states.

Participant

Eligible hospitals had a Stroke Care Unit or staffing equivalent to a stroke physician and a nurse, and were in the early stages of implementing thrombolysis.

Intervention

The intervention was multifaceted and developed using the behaviour change wheel and informed by breakthrough collaborative m

SUBMITTER: Hasnain MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924711 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature