Can the wrong statistic be bad for health? Improving the reporting of door-to-needle time performance in acute myocardial infarction

Hospitals that achieve a 30-minute median DNT benchmark still treat 40% to 50% of their patients outside the recommended time, which is not consistent with current AMI treatment guidelines. Door-to-needle time for the average patient would be up to 43 minutes faster if the DNT target was achieved at the 85th percentile.