Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study

Literature studying the door-to-balloon time-outcome relation in coronary intervention is limited by the potential of residual biases from unobserved confounders. This study re-examines the time-outcome relation with further consideration of the unobserved factors and reports the population average...

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Main Authors: Foo, C.Y., Andrianopoulos, N., Brennan, Angela, Ajani, A., Reid, Christopher, Duffy, S.J., Clark, D.J., Reidpath, Daniel, Chaiyakunapruk, N.
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Language:English
Published: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80065
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author Foo, C.Y.
Andrianopoulos, N.
Brennan, Angela
Ajani, A.
Reid, Christopher
Duffy, S.J.
Clark, D.J.
Reidpath, Daniel
Chaiyakunapruk, N.
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Andrianopoulos, N.
Brennan, Angela
Ajani, A.
Reid, Christopher
Duffy, S.J.
Clark, D.J.
Reidpath, Daniel
Chaiyakunapruk, N.
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description Literature studying the door-to-balloon time-outcome relation in coronary intervention is limited by the potential of residual biases from unobserved confounders. This study re-examines the time-outcome relation with further consideration of the unobserved factors and reports the population average effect. Adults with ST-elevation myocardial infarction admitted to one of the six registry participating hospitals in Australia were included in this study. The exposure variable was patient-level door-to-balloon time. Primary outcomes assessed included in-hospital and 30 days mortality. 4343 patients fulfilled the study criteria. 38.0% (1651) experienced a door-to-balloon delay of >90 minutes. The absolute risk differences for in-hospital and 30-day deaths between the two exposure subgroups with balanced covariates were 2.81 (95% CI 1.04, 4.58) and 3.37 (95% CI 1.49, 5.26) per 100 population. When unmeasured factors were taken into consideration, the risk difference were 20.7 (95% CI −2.6, 44.0) and 22.6 (95% CI −1.7, 47.0) per 100 population. Despite further adjustment of the observed and unobserved factors, this study suggests a directionally consistent linkage between longer door-to-balloon delay and higher risk of adverse outcomes at the population level. Greater uncertainties were observed when unmeasured factors were taken into consideration.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-800652021-01-05T08:07:08Z Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study Foo, C.Y. Andrianopoulos, N. Brennan, Angela Ajani, A. Reid, Christopher Duffy, S.J. Clark, D.J. Reidpath, Daniel Chaiyakunapruk, N. Science & Technology Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE METHODS MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION PROPENSITY SCORE MORTALITY TIME RISK IMPACT CARE Literature studying the door-to-balloon time-outcome relation in coronary intervention is limited by the potential of residual biases from unobserved confounders. This study re-examines the time-outcome relation with further consideration of the unobserved factors and reports the population average effect. Adults with ST-elevation myocardial infarction admitted to one of the six registry participating hospitals in Australia were included in this study. The exposure variable was patient-level door-to-balloon time. Primary outcomes assessed included in-hospital and 30 days mortality. 4343 patients fulfilled the study criteria. 38.0% (1651) experienced a door-to-balloon delay of >90 minutes. The absolute risk differences for in-hospital and 30-day deaths between the two exposure subgroups with balanced covariates were 2.81 (95% CI 1.04, 4.58) and 3.37 (95% CI 1.49, 5.26) per 100 population. When unmeasured factors were taken into consideration, the risk difference were 20.7 (95% CI −2.6, 44.0) and 22.6 (95% CI −1.7, 47.0) per 100 population. Despite further adjustment of the observed and unobserved factors, this study suggests a directionally consistent linkage between longer door-to-balloon delay and higher risk of adverse outcomes at the population level. Greater uncertainties were observed when unmeasured factors were taken into consideration. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80065 10.1038/s41598-019-56353-7 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION
INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE METHODS
MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
PROPENSITY SCORE
MORTALITY
TIME
RISK
IMPACT
CARE
Foo, C.Y.
Andrianopoulos, N.
Brennan, Angela
Ajani, A.
Reid, Christopher
Duffy, S.J.
Clark, D.J.
Reidpath, Daniel
Chaiyakunapruk, N.
Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
title Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
title_full Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
title_fullStr Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
title_full_unstemmed Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
title_short Re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on STEMI outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
title_sort re-examining the effect of door-to-balloon delay on stemi outcomes in the context of unmeasured confounders: a retrospective cohort study
topic Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION
INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE METHODS
MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
PROPENSITY SCORE
MORTALITY
TIME
RISK
IMPACT
CARE
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80065