ABSTRACT The Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP), now replaced by
the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme, was established to provide comparative data …

Objective To examine the potential for using routinely collected administrative data to
compare the quality and safety of stroke care at a hospital level, including evaluating any …

Background and Purpose—We sought to evaluate a system for monitoring the quality of
hospital-based stroke services that uses routinely collected case fatality data, adjusted for …

Background: Registers are increasingly used to monitor stroke care performance. Fair
benchmarking requires sufficient data quality. We have validated acute care data in …

Registration of all hospitalized stroke patients is practiced in Sweden in order to assess care
quality. Data in this register, Riks‐Stroke (RS), may be biased due to incomplete registration …

Background—As a measure of stroke severity, the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
(NIHSS) is an important predictor of patient-and hospital-level outcomes, yet is often …

Rationale The effectiveness of clinician-focused interventions to improve stroke care is
uncertain. Aims To determine whether an organizational intervention can improve the quality …

Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have proposed 30-day
ischemic stroke risk-standardized mortality rates that include adjustment for stroke severity …

Background Robust international data support the effectiveness of stroke unit (SU) care.
Despite this, most stroke care in Ireland are provided outside of this setting. Limited data …

Background Routine monitoring of the quality of stroke care is becoming increasingly
important since patient outcomes could be improved with better access to proven treatments …