Integration of pre-hospital electrocardiograms and ST-elevation myocardial infarction receiving center (SRC) networks: impact on Door-to-Balloon times across 10 independent regions.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of timely reperfusion for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) in regional STEMI Receiving Center (SRC) networks.

Background: The American College of Cardiology Door-to-Balloon (D2B) Alliance target is a >75% rate of D2B View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Families' experience during recovery or nonrecovery from psychosis.

This naturalistic qualitative study was conducted to expand understanding of families' subjective experiences to their relative's recovery or non recovery from psychosis. Nine families, who had a member with a chronic mental illness who was taking a second generation neuroleptic medication, were interviewed five times over the course of one year. Eight families reported positive outcomes, particularly valuing improved interpersonal relationships.

Reconnecting: the client experience of recovery from psychosis.

Problem: To understand the experience of recovery from psychosis from the consumer/client perspective.

Methods: A naturalistic, qualitative design with an ethnographic method for data analysis. Subjects (N = 10) were interviewed prior to and during the initial year of treatment with clozapine or risperidone.