The Effect of Easily Implementable Changes to the “D’s of Stroke Care” in Reducing Sex Disparity in Door-to-Needle Time

Jameie, Melika; Jameie, Mana; Farahmand, Ghasem; Ilkhani, Saba; Magrouni, Hana; Ranjbar, Zahra; Heydari, Sanaz; Shahbazi, Mojtaba; Kaeedi, Maryam; Amani, Kiana; Amiri, Rosita; Alizade, Fateme; Balali, Pargol; Amanollahi, Mobina; Pourghaz, Bahareh; Ghabaee, Mojdeh

doi:10.1097/nrl.0000000000000467

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The Effect of Easily Implementable Changes to the “D’s of Stroke Care” in Reducing Sex Disparity in Door-to-Needle Time

Published in The Neurologist • Sep 2, 2022

Authors:

Melika Jameie

Mana Jameie

Ghasem Farahmand

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Door-to-needle (DTN) is the duration between patient's arrival at the hospital and receiving intravenous thrombolysis in ischemic stroke settings, for which studies have reported delays in women. The "D's of stroke care" describes 8 steps (D1 to D8) in patients' time tracker. We implemen...

Subject

Medicine

Thrombolysis

Stroke (engine)

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