OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between measures of @entity1 arrival day (weekday or weekend day), day part (nighttime vs. daytime) and hour (regular hours vs. off hours) at the @entity64 unit of the Emergency Department of the Puerto Rico Medical Center and the following time-to-treatment measures: door-to-CT-scan, door-to-needle, and @entity64 -onset-to-treatment. METHODS: In this retrospective study, the data of 54 @entity1 was obtained from the @entity64 unit of the Puerto Rico Medical Center through the Get With The Guidelines- @entity64 Registry. Inclusion criteria were as follows: having an @entity385 within the period covering from August 2008 through February 2010 and being at least 18 years old. Associations between @entity1 arrival time and timeliness of interventions were assessed using t-tests/Mann-Whitney tests and chi-square tests/Fisher's exact tests, as appropriate. RESULTS: The majority of the @entity1 (74%) were @entity1 . The mean and standard deviation of age was 67    14 years. The median of times for door-to-CT-scan and onset to treatment were 15 minutes (interquartile range = 15) and 2.7 hours (interquartile range = 0.6), respectively. The mean and standard deviation for door-to-needle time was 77    18 minutes. No differences were found for any of the variables in terms of arrival date, day part or hour (p>0.05). The median time for door-to-CT- scan was shorter for @entity1 receiving intravenous tissue plasminogen activator treatment than it was for those not receiving such treatment (12 minutes vs. 20 minutes; p = 0.02). CONCLUSION: The timeliness of the @entity64 management interventions did not differ significantly in terms of arrival day, day part, or hour.

Impact of Day of the Week and Time of Arrival on XXXX Management.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient', 'men'] @entity64 :: ('MESH:D020521', 'Disease') :: ['stroke', 'Stroke'] @entity385 :: ('MESH:D002544', 'Disease') :: ['ischemic stroke']
@entity385 :: (MESH:D002544,Disease) :: ['Ischemic Stroke']
