Ashwin S Nathan1,2,3, Swathi Raman4, Nancy Yang4, Ian Painter5, Sameed Ahmed M Khatana1,2,3, Elias J Dayoub2,3,6, Howard C Herrmann1, Robert W Yeh7, Peter W Groeneveld2,3,8,6, Jacob A Doll5, James M McCabe5,9, Ravi S Hira5,9, Jay Giri1,2,3,6, Alexander C Fanaroff1,2,3. 1. Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (A.S.N., S.A.M.K., H.C.H., J.G., A.C.F.). 2. Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (A.S.N., S.A.M.K., E.J.D., P.W.G., J.G., A.C.F.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 3. Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research Center (A.S.N., S.A.M.K., E.J.D., P.W.G., J.G., A.C.F.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 4. College of Arts and Sciences (S.R., N.Y.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 5. Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle (I.P., J.A.D., J.M.M., R.S.H.). 6. Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA (E.J.D., P.W.G., J.G.). 7. Richard and Susan Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (R.W.Y.). 8. Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine (P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 9. Foundation for Health Care Quality, Seattle, WA (J.M.M., R.S.H.).
Abstract
BACKGROUND: For patients presenting with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, national quality initiatives monitor hospitals' proportion of cases with door-to-balloon (D2B) time under 90 minutes. Hospitals are allowed to exclude patients from reporting and may modify behavior to improve performance. We sought to identify whether there is a discontinuity in the number of cases included in the D2B time metric at 90 minutes and whether operators were increasingly likely to pursue femoral access in patients with less time to meet the 90-minute quality metric. METHODS: Adult patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention from 2011 to 2018 were identified from the Cardiac Care Outcomes Assessment Program, a quality improvement registry in Washington state. We used the regression discontinuity framework to test for discontinuity at 90 minutes among the included cases. We defined a novel variable, remaining D2B as 90 minutes minus the time between hospital arrival and catheterization laboratory arrival. We estimated multivariable logistic regression models to assess the relationship between remaining D2B time and access site. RESULTS: A total of 19 348 patients underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention and were included in the analysis. Overall, 7436 (38.4%) were excluded from the metric. There appeared to be a visual discontinuity in included cases around 90 minutes; however, local quadratic regression around the 90-minute cutoff did not reveal evidence of a significant discontinuity (P=0.66). Multivariable analysis showed no significant relationship between remaining D2B time and the odds of undergoing femoral access (P=0.73). CONCLUSIONS: Among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, we did not find evidence of a statistically significant discontinuity in the frequency of included cases around 90 minutes or an increased preference for femoral access correlated with decreasing time to meet the 90-minute D2B time quality metric. Together, these findings indicate no evidence of widespread inappropriate methods to improve performance on D2B time metrics.
BACKGROUND: For patients presenting with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, national quality initiatives monitor hospitals' proportion of cases with door-to-balloon (D2B) time under 90 minutes. Hospitals are allowed to exclude patients from reporting and may modify behavior to improve performance. We sought to identify whether there is a discontinuity in the number of cases included in the D2B time metric at 90 minutes and whether operators were increasingly likely to pursue femoral access in patients with less time to meet the 90-minute quality metric. METHODS: Adult patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention from 2011 to 2018 were identified from the Cardiac Care Outcomes Assessment Program, a quality improvement registry in Washington state. We used the regression discontinuity framework to test for discontinuity at 90 minutes among the included cases. We defined a novel variable, remaining D2B as 90 minutes minus the time between hospital arrival and catheterization laboratory arrival. We estimated multivariable logistic regression models to assess the relationship between remaining D2B time and access site. RESULTS: A total of 19 348 patients underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention and were included in the analysis. Overall, 7436 (38.4%) were excluded from the metric. There appeared to be a visual discontinuity in included cases around 90 minutes; however, local quadratic regression around the 90-minute cutoff did not reveal evidence of a significant discontinuity (P=0.66). Multivariable analysis showed no significant relationship between remaining D2B time and the odds of undergoing femoral access (P=0.73). CONCLUSIONS: Among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, we did not find evidence of a statistically significant discontinuity in the frequency of included cases around 90 minutes or an increased preference for femoral access correlated with decreasing time to meet the 90-minute D2B time quality metric. Together, these findings indicate no evidence of widespread inappropriate methods to improve performance on D2B time metrics.
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