Temporal Trends in Patient Characteristics and Treatment With Intravenous Thrombolysis Among Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients at Get With the Guidelines–Stroke Hospitals

Stroke Reports Monday, September 23rd, 2013

AHA: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 9/1/13

 

Background—Substantial efforts over the past decade have increased rates of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) use in the United States. We sought to determine changes in patient characteristics and rates of tPA use over time among hospitalized acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients.

Methods and Results—We analyzed all AIS patients (n=1 093 895) and those arriving ≤2 hours and treated with tPA ≤3 hours after onset (n=50 798) from 2003 to 2011 in the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guideline–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke). Read more

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