Developing a tool to assess quality of stroke care across european populations: The EROS quality assessment tool

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1207-1211

  Wellwood, Ian ^a,b   Wu, Olivia ^c   Langhorne, Peter ^c   McKevitt, Christopher ^a   Di Carlo, Antonio ^d   Rudd, Anthony G ^b   Wolfe, Charles D A ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

organized stroke care; performance measurement; quality assessment; scales; stroke management; stroke registers; stroke units

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REHABILITATION CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; STROKE;

EID: 79955476511     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.598938     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Beech R, Ratcliffe M, Tilling K, Wolfe C; on behalf of the participants of the European Study of Stroke Care. Hospital services for stroke care: a European perspective. Stroke. 1996;27:1958-1964. (Pubitemid 26372563)
2. Wolfe C, Tilling K, Beech R, Rudd A; for the European BIOMED Study of Stroke Care Group. Variations in case fatality and dependency from stroke in Western and Central Europe. Stroke. 1999;30:350-356. (Pubitemid 29071800)
3. Grieve R, Hutton J, Bhalla A, Rastenytë D, Ryglewicz D, Sarti C, Lamassa M, Giroud M, Dundas R, Wolfe CD. A comparison of the costs and survival of hospital-admitted stroke patients across Europe. Stroke. 2001;32:1684-1691. (Pubitemid 32631925)
4. Clarke A, Rao M. Developing quality indicators to assess quality of care. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004;13:248-249. (Pubitemid 39070890)
5. Leys D, Ringelstein B, Kaste M, Hacke W, for the Executive Committee of the European Stroke Initiative. Facilities available in European hos-pitals treating stroke patients. Stroke. 2007;38:2985-2991 (Pubitemid 350035694)
6. Royal College of Physicians Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party. National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke, 3rd ed. London: Royal College of Physicians; 2008.
7. EUSI, European Stroke Organisation. Guidelines for stroke management, updated January 2009. http://www.eso-stroke.org/recommendations.php. Last accessed July 2010.
8. American Heart Association. Definitive stroke guidelines collection. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3004586. Last accessed July 2010.
9. Holloway R, Vickrey B, Benesch C, Hinchey J, Bieber J. Development of performance measures for acute ischemic stroke. Stroke. 2001;32: 2058-2074.
10. Reeves M, Parker C, Fonarow G, Smith E, Schwamm L. Development of stroke performance measures: definitions, methods, and current measures. Stroke. 2010;41:1573-1578.
11. European Registers of Stroke (EROS) Collaborative Group. European Registers of Stroke. http://phs.kcl.ac.uk/eros/. Last Accessed June 1, 2009.
12. The European Registers of Stroke (EROS) Investigators. Incidence of stroke in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. Stroke. 2009;40: 1557-1563
13. Royal College of Physicians Intercollegiate Working Party for Stroke. National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke, 2nd ed. London: Royal College of Physicians; 2004.
14. McKevitt C, Beech R, Pound P, Rudd A, Wolfe C, (BIOMED II): Putting stroke outcomes into context Eur J Public Health. 2000;10:120-126.
15. Jones J, Hunter D. Consensus methods for medical and health services research. BMJ. 1995;311:376-380.
16. Norving B, Wester P, Sunnerhagen K, Terént A, Sohlberg A, Berggren F, Wester P, Asplund K, for the Stroke Guidelines Working Group, National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden. Beyond conventional stroke guidelines: setting priorities. Stroke. 2007;38:2185-2190. (Pubitemid 47012288)
17. Rudd A, Hoffman A, Irwin P, Pearson M, Lowe D, on behalf of the Intercollegiate Working Party for Stroke. Stroke units: research and reality: results from the National Sentinel Audit of Stroke. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:7-12 (Pubitemid 40222374)
18. Stroke Unit Trialists' Collaboration. Organised inpatient (stroke unit) care for stroke. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;2:CD000197.
19. Irwin P, Hoffman A, Lowe D, Pearson M, Rudd A. Improving clinical practice through audit: results of three rounds of National Stroke Audit. J Eval Clin Pract. 2005;11:306-314. (Pubitemid 41059312)
20. Candelise L, Micieli G, Sterzi R, Morabito A; on behalf of the PROSIT collaborators: Stroke units and general wards in seven Italian regions: the PROSIT study. Neurol Sci. 2005;26:81-88. (Pubitemid 40975508)
21. Ringelstein E, Meckes-Ferber S, Hacke W, Kaste M, Brainin M, Leys D, for the European Stroke Initiative (EUSI) executive committee. European Stroke Facilities Survey: the German and Austrian perspective. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2009;27:138-145.
22. I. Wellwood I, Langhorne P, McKevitt C, Bernhardt J, Rudd A, Wolfe C, on behalf of the European Registers of Stroke (EROS) collaborative group. An observational study of acute stroke care in four countries: the European Registers of Stroke (EROS) Study. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2009;28: 171-176