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We can obtain useful information about cardiologic performance from the American College of Cardiology's most recent annual report of data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registries (NCDR).
For example, radial access for interventional procedures increased from 11% in 2011 to 25% in 2014. The median door-to-balloon time for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction was 59 minutes in 2014, a stable number since 2011. Overall, PCI occurred in 90% of the patients within 70 minutes and in 93% within 90 minutes, a previously specified, guideline-based threshold. Among hospitals still using fibrinolytic therapy in 2014, door-to-needle time within 30 minutes occurred in only 54% of p…