• Emergency Department, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
WanZhi, Email: 303680215@qq.com
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Objective To explore the effect of continuous improvement of quality control system on the emergency treatment efficiency for patients with acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) after the establishment of Chest Pain Center. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the differences of theory examination scores acquired by the Chest Pain Center staff one month before and after they got the system training. Moreover, we designated the STEMI patients treated between May and August 2015 after the establishment of Chest Pain Center but before optimization of process to group A (n=70), and patients treated from September to December 2015 after optimization of process to group B (n=55). Then we analyzed the differences between these two groups in terms of the time from patients' arriving to registration, the time from arriving to first order, the length of stay in Emergency Department, and even the time from door to balloon (D2B). Results The scores acquired by Chest Pain Center staff before and after system training were 69.89±6.34 and 87.09±4.39 respectively, with a significant difference (P<0.05). All the time indicators of both group A and group B were shown as median and quartile. The time from patients' arriving to registration of group A and group B was 6.0 (0.0, 11.0) minutes and 1.0 (0.0, 3.0) minutes (P<0.05); the time from arriving to first order was 12.8 (9.0, 18.0) minutes and 5.0 (3.0, 9.0) minutes (P<0.05); the length of stay in Emergency Department was 54.0 (44.0,77.0) minutes and 33.0 (20.0, 61.0) minutes (P<0.05); and the time of D2B was 107.5 (89.0, 130.0) minutes and 79.0 (63.0, 108.0) minutes (P<0.05). Conclusion After taking measures such as drawing lessons from the past, training staff and optimizing process continuously, we have significantly shortened the acute STEMI patients' length of stay in the Emergency Department, which has saved more time for the following rescue of STEMI patients.

Citation: ZhangWei, ZhangQin, ChenYao, WanZhi. The Effect of Continuous Improvement of Quality Control Mechanism on the Emergency Treatment Efficiency for Acute ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Chest Pain Center. West China Medical Journal, 2016, 31(6): 1038-1041. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201600279 Copy

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