Improving acute myocardial infarction care utilizing the deming method

Chest pain emergency centers: improving acute myocardial infarction care.

Uncertainty and delay are common in the diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). In the last 20 years, the need for faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective diagnosis gave rise to the concept of specialized treatment of patients with chest pain in emergency departments (EDs). The original strategy dedicated a separate section of the ED and a nursing staff to the task of rapid interven...

Improving the Care for Myocardial Infarction

The field of outcomes research rigorously searches for opportunities to improve the delivery of health care. The general approach is to carefully describe outcomes—including survival, resource utilization (including hospitalization and treatments over time) and health status—and to examine the source of variations in these outcomes.1 This approach is different from the deductive reasoning used ...

A New Hybrid Method for Improving the Performance of Myocardial Infarction Prediction

Abstract Introduction: Myocardial Infarction, also known as heart attack, normally occurs due to such causes as smoking, family history, diabetes, and so on. It is recognized as one of the leading causes of death in the world. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the performance of classification models in order to predict Myocardial Infarction, using a feature selection method tha...

Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction

To improve the specificity of biochemical markers of myocardial infarction (MI) a method to measure cardiac troponin-I (CTn-I) was developed. CTn-I is a protein unique to cardiac muscle and is released after MI. Consecutive 150 patients admitted to the coronary care unit was studied. Value of CTn-I was determined in all samples. CTn-I concentration in the MI patients group was increased com...

Improving ST-elevation-myocardial infarction care.