Improvement in In-Hospital Clinical Outcomes for Ischemic Stroke 2003–2009: Findings from Get with the Guidelines-Stroke

Summary

Get With The Guidelines -Stroke, a stroke registry component of a continuous evidence-driven performance improvement program that includes a web-based patient management tool to provide clinical decision-making support, reporting, and patient education elements, was developed to track, measure, and improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients with acute stroke or transient ischemic attack in the United States. This article discusses a subset of these findings, including only patients with acute ischemic stroke.

  • neurology
  • prevention & screening
  • cerebrovascular disease
  • neurology guidelines
  • episodic & paroxysmal disorders
  • ischemia
View Full Text