The Emergency Department identified a need to improve compliance with door-to-EKG times in their 2023 data. Data revealed that 28% of patients with chest pain and 30% of patients with STEMI did not receive an EKG within 10 minutes of arrival. A quality improvement project aimed to establish a consistent practice for promptly recognizing patients requiring EKGs and to streamline the door-to-EKG process.
As a result of this project, for the 4 months following implementation, compliance with door-to-EKG time of less than 10 minutes for chest pain patients increased to 86% and for STEMI patients, compliance reached 100%! Consequently, KP-RWC improved their ranking from 13th to 7th place among the facilities.
