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Association Between Time to Treatment With Endovascular Thrombectomy and Home-Time After Acute Ischemic Stroke
Raed A Joundi1, Michael D Hill1, Jillian Stang1
1From the Division of Neurology (R.A.J.), Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University & Population Health Research Institute, Ontario; Departments of Clinical Neurosciences (M.D.H., E.E.S.) and Community Health Sciences (E.E.S.), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Data and Analytics (DnA) (J.S., D.N.) and Cardiovascular Health and Stroke Strategic Clinical Network (M.-L.H.), Alberta Health Services; ICES (A.Y.X.Y., M.K.K.), Toronto; Department of Medicine (Neurology) (A.Y.X.Y.), University of Toronto; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (A.Y.X.Y.), Ontario; Department of Medicine (A.Y.X.Y.), Division of Neurology, University of Toronto; Department of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) (M.K.K.), University of Toronto-University Health Network, Ontario; Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Support Unit Data Platform (J.A.K.); and Provincial Research Data Services (J.A.K.), Alberta Health Services, Canada.
Background And Objectives:
Home-time is a patient-prioritized stroke outcome that can be derived from administrative data linkages. The effect of faster time-to-treatment with endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) on home-time after acute stroke is unknown.
Methods:
We used the Quality Improvement and Clinical Research registry to identify a cohort of patients who received EVT for acute ischemic stroke between 2015 and 2022 in Alberta, Canada. We calculated days at home in the first 90 days after stroke. We used ordinal regression across 6 ordered categories of home-time to evaluate the association between onset-to-arterial puncture and higher home-time, adjusting for age, sex, rural residence, NIH Stroke Scale, comorbidities, intravenous thrombolysis, and year of treatment. We used restricted cubic splines to assess the nonlinear relationship between continuous variation in time metrics and higher home-time, and also reported the adjusted odds ratios within time categories. We additionally evaluated door-to-puncture and reperfusion times. Finally, we analyzed home-time with zero-inflated models to determine the minutes of earlier treatment required to gain 1 day of home-time.
Results:
We had 1,885 individuals in our final analytic sample. There was a nonlinear increase in home-time with faster treatment when EVT was within 4 hours of stroke onset or 2 hours of hospital arrival. There was a higher odds of achieving more days at home when onset-to-puncture time was <2 hours (adjusted odds ratio 2.36, 95% CI 1.77-3.16) and 2 to <4 hours (1.37, 95% CI 1.11-1.71) compared with ≥6 hours, and when door-to-puncture time was <1 hour (aOR 2.25, 95% CI 1.74-2.90), 1 to <1.5 hours (aOR 1.89, 95% CI 1.47-2.41), and 1.5 to <2 hours (1.35, 95% CI 1.04-1.76) compared with ≥2 hours. Results were consistent for reperfusion times. For every hour of faster treatment within 6 hours of stroke onset, there was an estimated increase in home-time of 4.7 days, meaning that approximately 1 day of home-time was gained for each 12.8 minutes of faster treatment.
Discussion:
Faster time-to-treatment with EVT for acute stroke was associated with greater home-time, particularly within 4 hours of onset-to-puncture and 2 hours of door-to-puncture time. Within 6 hours of stroke onset, each 13 minutes of faster treatment is associated with a gain of 1 day of home-time.
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