Variations in acute hospital stroke care and factors influencing adherence to quality indicators in 6 European audits

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 579-581

  Wiedmann, Silke ^a   Hillmann, Steffi ^a   Abilleira, Sònia ^b   Dennis, Martin ^c   Hermanek, Peter ^d   Niewada, Maciej ^e   Norrving, Bo ^f   Asplund, Kjell ^g   Rudd, Anthony G ^h   Wolfe, Charles D A ⁱ   Heuschmann, Peter U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia   (Spain)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Bavarian Permanent Working Party for Quality Assurance   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h Division of Health and Social Care Research   (United States)

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

Author keywords

health care; health services research; quality indicators; quality of healthcare; stroke care

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HOSPITAL STROKE CARE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DYSPHAGIA; EUROPEAN; EUROPEAN IMPLEMENTATION SCORE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE UNIT; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDS; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EUROPE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84922283818     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007504     Document Type: Article

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