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Table 1 The baseline characteristics and the results of the t-test

From: Under the chest pain center mechanism, whether the nursing handover affects the nursing efficiency and the outcomes of patients with STEMI in the emergency department? A retrospective study

 

Handover period group

Non-handover period group

P-value

Baseline characteristics

 Cases

40(17.3%)

191(82.6%)

 

 Gender

40

191

0.676

  Male

30

137

 

  Female

10

54

 

 Age

62.4 (± 2.48)

62.8 (± 4.32)

0.358

 BMI

28.92 (± 2.09)

28.75 (± 2.38)

0.684

 Current smoking

20 (± 0.50)

104 (± 0.49)

0.610

 Dyslipidemia

30 (± 0.43)

155 (± 0.39)

0.378

 Diabetes mellitus

18 (± 0.50)

58 (± 0.46)

0.096

 Heart failure history

7 (± 0.38)

26 (± 0.34)

0.525

 Renal failure history

4 (± 0.30)

23 (± 0.32)

0.716

 Previous myocardial infarction

5 (± 0.33)

16 (± 0.27)

0.412

 Killip class(arrival)

  

0.781

  I

27

115

 

  II

6

59

 

  III

5

12

 

  IV

2

5

 

Nursing efficiency

 D2FMC (minutes)

2.92 (± 0.72)

2.8 (± 0.76)

0.589

 FMC2FE (minutes)

2.12 (± 0.56)

2.14 (± 0.61)

0.876

 FMC2BS (minutes)

9.92 (± 2.60)

7.84 (± 2.36)

0.000**

 BS2CBR (minutes)

13. (± 0.64)

12.91 (± 0.77)

0.004*

 FMC2FAD (minutes)

8.10 (± 0.95)

6.95 (± 1.14)

0.000**

 D2W (minutes)

70.6 (± 2.02)

69.21 (± 2.34)

0.001*

Outcomes

 Occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events

6

29

0.977

 Highest troponin values within 72 h of hospitalization(TNT, ng/L)

2542 (± 2206.21)

2252.4 (± 2424.93)

0.486

 Hospitalization (days)

13.8 (± 2.13)

13.39 (± 2.45)

0.337

  1. D2FMC Time from the patient's arrival at the hospital gate to the first medical contact, FMC2FE Time from the first medical contact to the first ECG,  FMC2BS Time from the first medical contact to the blood sampling, BS2CBR Time from the blood sampling to the cardiac biomarkers report, FMC2FAD Time from the first medical contact to the first anti-platelet drug, D2W Time from the patient’s arrival at the hospital gate to the opening of their occluded coronary arteries
  2. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.001