Dimensiones de calidad enfocadas en el protocolo de atención Código Infarto.

The Código Infarto (Infarction Code) strategy is part of the comprehensive care program "A Todo Corazón" (To All Heart), whose aim is to reinforce the prevention and health care of cardiovascular diseases. Mexico faces a big challenge, since it is the country with greater mortality secondary to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the first 30 days in patients of 45 years or older (28% compared with 7.9% of the average). In addition, Mexico's population has a high prevalence of risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, tobacco use, dyslipidemias, overweight, and obesity). It is for these reasons that 18 months ago the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) implemented the first care protocol for patients with AMI, called Código Infarto, whose main aim is to guarantee the diagnosis and treatment of patients with AMI, so that they can receive, once they are admitted at IMSS emergency rooms, primary angioplasty in less than 90 minutes, or fibrinolytic therapy in less than 30 minutes. The quality focus in the Código Infarto strategy has six main dimensions: security, effectiveness, its focus on the patient, opportune, efficient, and [it offers] equitable [treatment]. The implementation of Código Infarto in IMSS is the first institutional strategy to face the leading cause of death in our country and it has produced up until now very encouraging results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]