Implementing a Simple Care Bundle Is Associated with Improved Outcomes in a National Cohort of Patients with Ischemic Stroke

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1065-1070

  Turner, Melanie ^a   Barber, Mark ^b   Dodds, Hazel ^c   Murphy, David ^c   Dennis, Martin ^d   Langhorne, Peter ^e   Macleod, Mary Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MONKLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

patient outcome assessment; selection bias; standards; survival

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARE BUNDLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE UNIT; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISCHEMIC STROKE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND; SELECTION BIAS; SURVIVAL; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE BUNDLES; REGISTRIES; SCOTLAND; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930788864     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007608     Document Type: Article

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