Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Our journals
    • Clinical Medicine
    • Future Healthcare Journal
  • Subject collections
  • About the RCP
  • Contact us

Clinical Medicine Journal

  • ClinMed Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
  • Author guidance
    • Instructions for authors
    • Submit online
  • About ClinMed
    • Scope
    • Editorial board
    • Policies
    • Information for reviewers
    • Advertising

User menu

  • Log in

Search

  • Advanced search
RCP Journals
Home
  • Log in
  • Home
  • Our journals
    • Clinical Medicine
    • Future Healthcare Journal
  • Subject collections
  • About the RCP
  • Contact us
Advanced

Clinical Medicine Journal

clinmedicine Logo
  • ClinMed Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
  • Author guidance
    • Instructions for authors
    • Submit online
  • About ClinMed
    • Scope
    • Editorial board
    • Policies
    • Information for reviewers
    • Advertising

The latest national clinical guideline for stroke

Anthony George Rudd, Audrey Bowen, Gavin R Young and Martin A James
Download PDF
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.17-2-154
Clin Med April 2017
Anthony George Rudd
AKings College London, consultant stroke physician, Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, national clinical director for stroke, NHS England and associate director, Stroke Programme, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
Roles: professor of stroke medicine
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: Anthony.rudd@kcl.ac.uk
Audrey Bowen
BDivision of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Roles: Stroke Association John Marshall Memorial Professor of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Gavin R Young
CSouth Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, North Yorkshire, UK
Roles: consultant neurologist
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Martin A James
DRoyal Devon and Exeter Hospital, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK
Roles: consultant stroke physician, associate professor
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Metrics
Loading

Article Figures & Data

Tables

    • View popup
    Table 1.

    Recommended staffing levels for acute and hyperacute stroke units

    PT WTE/5 bedOT WTE/5 bedSLT WTE/5 bedPsy WTE/5 bedsDietn WTE/5 bedNurse WTE/1 bedConsultant physician
    HASU0.730.680.340.20.152.924/7, min 6 rota
    ASU0.840.810.400.20.151.355 days ward rounds
    • ASU = acute stroke unit; Dietn = dietician; HASU = hyperacute stroke unit; OT = occupational therapy; Psy = psychologist; PT = physiotherapy; SLT = speech and language therapy; WTE = whole-time equivalent

Back to top
Previous articleNext article

Article Tools

Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Citation Tools
The latest national clinical guideline for stroke
Anthony George Rudd, Audrey Bowen, Gavin R Young, Martin A James
Clinical Medicine Apr 2017, 17 (2) 154-155; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-2-154

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Share
The latest national clinical guideline for stroke
Anthony George Rudd, Audrey Bowen, Gavin R Young, Martin A James
Clinical Medicine Apr 2017, 17 (2) 154-155; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-2-154
Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Acute care
    • Rehabilitation
    • Secondary prevention
    • Conclusions
    • Conflicts of interest
    • References
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Metrics

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Scoping Review of Existing Stroke Guidelines; Argument for a Value-Added Change
  • Rehabilitation of cognitive deficits poststroke: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of non-pharmacological interventions
  • Delay in patients suspected of transient ischaemic attack: a cross-sectional study
  • The risk of ischemic events increased in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis with decreased cerebrovascular reserve
  • The latest national clinical guideline for stroke
  • The latest national clinical guideline for stroke
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • CME Cerebrovascular disease (108460): self-assessment questionnaire
  • Mimics and chameleons in stroke
Show more CME Cerebrovascular disease

Similar Articles

FAQs

  • Difficulty logging in.

There is currently no login required to access the journals. Please go to the home page and simply click on the edition that you wish to read. If you are still unable to access the content you require, please let us know through the 'Contact us' page.

  • Can't find the CME questionnaire.

The read-only self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ) can be found after the CME section in each edition of Clinical Medicine. RCP members and fellows (using their login details for the main RCP website) are able to access the full SAQ with answers and are awarded 2 CPD points upon successful (8/10) completion from:  https://cme.rcplondon.ac.uk

Navigate this Journal

  • Journal Home
  • Current Issue
  • Ahead of Print
  • Archive

Related Links

  • ClinMed - Home
  • FHJ - Home
clinmedicine Footer Logo
  • Home
  • Journals
  • Contact us
  • Advertise
HighWire Press, Inc.

Follow Us:

  • Follow HighWire Origins on Twitter
  • Visit HighWire Origins on Facebook

Copyright © 2021 by the Royal College of Physicians