Door-to-balloon times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction requiring interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention: A report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry

Although there has been modest temporal improvement in DTB times, transfer patients still rarely achieve benchmark standards. Hospitals that had greater improvements in direct-arrival DTB times were not necessarily those with greater improvements in transfer DTB times. These results highlight the need for targeted system and policy approaches to improve DTB time for transferred primary PCI patients.