In-Hospital Emergency Treatment Delay Among Chinese Patients with Acute Ischaemic Stroke: Relation to Hospital Arrivals and Implications for Triage Pathways.

In-hospital emergency treatment delay is common in China, and occurs throughout the entire emergency treatment journey. Having a triage pathway involving hospital arrival by ambulance seems to be more likely to experience in-hospital emergency treatment delay. Further efforts to improve triage pathways may require qualitative evidence on provider- and institutional-level factors associated with in-hospital emergency treatment delay.