Average Time Before Outpatients Were Transferred to Hospital

• If a hospital does not have the facilities to provide specialized heart attack care, it transfers patients with possible heart attack to another hospital that can give them this care.


• This measure shows how long it takes, on average, for hospitals to identify patients who need specialized heart attack care the hospital cannot provide and begin their transfer to another hospital.


• It shows the average (median) number of minutes it takes from the time patients arrive in the Emergency Department until they are transported to a different hospital.