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Table 5 Associations of patient and admission characteristics with treatment delay in the multivariable analysis

From: Exploring the treatment delay in the care of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing acute percutaneous coronary intervention: a cross-sectional study

Variable

% increase in treatment delay (95 % CI)

Minimal increase in treatment delay in minutes (95 % CI)a

p-value

Intercept

N/A

 

59.8

(51.5;69.4)

N/A

Prior myocardial infarction

3.0 %

(−7.6;14.9)

1.8

(−4.5;8.9)

0.59

Prior use of anticoagulants (≤7 days)

6.7 %

(−2.3;16.5)

4.0

(−1.4;9.9)

0.15

First ECG at the general practitioner

40.0 %

(16.5;68.2)

23.9

(9.9;40.8)

<0.001

First ECG in the hospital

15.9 %

(4.1;28.9)

9.5

(2.5;17.3)

0.007

Interhospital transfer for PCI

24.4 %

(12.7;37.4)

14.6

(7.6;22.4)

<0.001

Acute heart failure on admission

29.5 %

(13.2;48.0)

17.6

(7.9;28.7)

<0.001

Creatinine level on admission (per mmol/L)

0.1 %

(−0.04;0.2)

0.06

(−0.02;0.14)

0.16

Stenosis in left anterior descending

4.1 %

(−2.2;10.9)

2.5

(−1.3;6.5)

0.21

Stenosis in circumflex artery

7.3 %

(0.6;14.4)

4.3

(0.4;8.6)

0.03

  1. Significant results are highlighted in bold
  2. N/A not applicable, CI confidence interval, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, ECG electrocardiogram
  3. aAs a result of the generalized linear model with a gamma distributed outcome and a log link, combining the effects of independent variables should be performed with caution due to multiplicative effects (and not additive) effects