ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2002
Stroke care: how do we measure quality?
Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Validity of Early Outcomes as Indicators for Comparing Hospitals on Quality of Stroke Care.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Trial
- Efficacy of telerehabilitation in inpatients with stroke: A pilot randomized controlled trial.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2025Article
- Improving stroke care in Nova Scotia, Canada: a population-based project spanning 14 years.BMJ open quality · 2021Article
- Stroke units, certification, and outcomes in German hospitals: a longitudinal study of patient-based 30-day mortality for 2006-2014.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Commissioning in health care: do you feel in charge?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2017Article
- Costs and assessment in medical education: a strategic view.Perspectives on medical education · 2016Article
- Letter to the Editor: Professionalism-The Role of Quality Improvement.Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2015Article
- Meeting the ambition of measuring the quality of hospitals' stroke care using routinely collected administrative data: a feasibility study.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2013Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review the methods used to measure quality of stroke care. Relevant articles were searched for on Medline using the following key words: stroke, quality, outcome of care, process of care, structure of care. Articles that examined how to measure the quality of stroke care and that examined difficulties in the measurement of care outcomes, processes, and structures were selected. Selected articles were reviewed to summarise methods used to measure quality of stroke care and the primary outcome measures of the studies were extracted. Conclusions were drawn about the best ways to measure the quality of stroke care. Practical problems in using outcome measures to monitor quality of care include the consequences of case mix and difficulties in risk adjustment. Clinicians may use process measures to understand differences in outcome. Once a process of care has been linked to an outcome measure, this care process should be measured. The national sentinel audit for stroke is an audit tool used to examine the quality of the processes of stroke care.
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