Background and Purpose—In the United States and elsewhere, stroke performance
measures have been developed to monitor and improve the quality of care. The process by …

Abstract Background and Aim In recent years, interest in the quality of medical care has
rapidly increased worldwide. However, quality indicators that contribute to establishing …

Background and Purpose—There is no consensus about indicators for measuring quality of
acute stroke care in Germany. Therefore, a standardized process was initiated recently to …

Background: We aimed to develop quality indicators (QIs) related to primary and
comprehensive stroke care and examine the feasibility of their measurement using the …

Background Stroke is a leading cause of disease burden. The quality of care provided in
hospitals can affect outcome. Therefore, examining adherence to clinically important …

Methods The Scottish Stroke Care Audit [15] was established in 2002 under the aegis of the
Scottish Stroke Collaboration. It aims to monitor the performance of Scottish hospitals …

Abstract Background: the National Service Framework for Older People requires every
general hospital which cares for stroke patients to introduce a specialist stroke service by …

The future challenge for improving stroke patients' outcome will be to implement new Stroke
Units (SUs) worldwide. However the best SU model remains uncertain. The aim of this study …

Rationale, aims and objectives Variation in quality of local services is of great concern to the
government and public. National audit is an important means of providing data of …

La enfermedad cerebrovascular constituye un problema de salud para Cuba, al ser la
tercera causa de muerte y la primera de discapacidad en el adulto, con serias …