Improving stroke pathways using an adhesive ambulatory ECG patch: reducing time for patients to ECGs and subsequent results

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Table 1.

Results of patients receiving Zio XT

	Number of patients with a Zio XT report available	Median time from Zio XT being ordered to being fitted, days (range)	Median time from Zio XT being ordered to the report being available to the clinician, days (range)	Patients for whom Zio XT results were not available at their follow-up clinic appointment, n (%)
Trust A	12	0 (0–5)	24 (15–65)	3 (25%)
Trust B	27	0 (0–14)	19 (12–33)	0 (0%)
Trust C	47	0 (0–4)	18.5 (12–51)	0 (0%)

Table 2.

Patients whose results were not available at follow-up

	Patients for whom 24-hour Holter results were not available at their follow-up appointment, n (%)	Patients for whom Zio XT results were not available at their follow-up appointment, n (%)	Significance using chi-squared test
Trust A	10 (28%)	3 (25%)	p=0.84
Trust B	12 (34%)	0 (0%)	p=0.02
Trust C	17 (31%)	0 (0%)	p=0.03