TY - JOUR
AU - Foody, JoAnne M.
AB - ORIGINAL ARTICLE Improvements in Time to Reperfusion Do Women Have an Advantage? Veena Rao, MSc,* Basmah Safdar, MD,† Janet Parkosewich, RN, DNSc,*‡ L. Veronica Lee, MD,* Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS,‡ and JoAnne M. Foody, MD§ Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) in New Haven, CT. The WHA Abstract: Several studies demonstrate that women have greater delays in program integrated the work of physicians, nurses, and administra- primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). To improve care for tors with the support of VHA, Inc. (a cooperative of over 2000 women, the Women’s Heart Advantage at Yale-New Haven Hospital hospitals), businesses, and other partners. Multiple strategies were (YNHH) developed patient- and physician-level interventions to improve employed to reach the WHA’s goal of educating women, physicians, knowledge about chest pain syndromes to promote early presentation, and hospital staff about cardiovascular care for women. To educate diagnosis, and timely management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction women in the community, educational initiatives such as the pro- (STEMI) in women presenting to the emergency department. Specifically, duction of a 6-step action card describing appropriate actions after a we analyzed chart-abstracted data from all patients undergoing PCI for heart attack (Fig. 1) and a Women’s Heart Line telephone number STEMI 
TI - Improvements in Time to Reperfusion Do Women Have an Advantage?
JF - Critical Pathways in Cardiology
DO - 10.1097/HPC.0b013e318194e443
DA - 2009-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/improvements-in-time-to-reperfusion-do-women-have-an-advantage-TApxpD04gR
SP - 38
EP - 42
VL - 8
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -