Patient experience of centralized acute stroke care pathways

Patient dissatisfaction with acute stroke care.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Riks-Stroke, the Swedish Stroke Register, was used to explore patient characteristics and stroke services as determinants of patient dissatisfaction with acute in-hospital care. METHODS All 79 hospitals in Sweden admitting acute stroke patients participate in Riks-Stroke. During 2001 to 2007, 104,876 patients (87% of survivors) responded to a follow-up questionnaire 3 m...

Interprofessional teamwork across stroke care pathways: outcomes and patient and carer experience

Proportion of patients treated with thrombolysis in a centralized versus a decentralized acute stroke care setting.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Today, treatment of acute stroke consists of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), admission to a stroke unit, and aspirin. Although tPA treatment is the most effective, there is substantial undertreatment. Centralized care may affect rate, timing, and outcome of thrombolysis compared to decentralized treatment in community hospitals. The present study aimed to assess ...

Acute childhood ischemic stroke: a pakistani tertiary care hospital experience

Acute Stroke Care

e second edition of Acute Stroke Care by Uchino, Pary, and Grotta is a pocket-sized practical guide intended for medical students, residents, and other clinicians involved in direct care of the acute stroke patient from emergency department through hospital discharge. Th e bulk of the text deals with acute ischemic stroke with short chapters addressing intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hem...