Quality of stroke care at an Irish Regional General Hospital and Stroke Rehabilitation Unit.
Affiliation
Department Medicine for the Elderly, Clinical Age Assessment Unit, Mid-Western, Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. thomaswalsh_3@hotmail.comIssue Date
2012-01-31T16:47:01ZMeSH
AgedDatabases as Topic/statistics & numerical data
Female
Hospitals, General/statistics & numerical data
Humans
Intensive Care Units/*statistics & numerical data
Ireland
Male
Medical Audit/statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
Quality of Health Care/standards/*statistics & numerical data
Retrospective Studies
Stroke/*drug therapy
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Ir J Med Sci. 2009 Mar;178(1):19-23. Epub 2008 Sep 24.Journal
Irish journal of medical scienceDOI
10.1007/s11845-008-0193-4PubMed ID
18813879Abstract
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 currently exist on the quality of care provided. AIM: The aim of this study is to examine the quality of care for patients with stroke in two care settings-Regional General Hospital (RGH) and Stroke Rehabilitation Unit (SRU). METHODS: A retrospective analysis of the stroke records of consecutive patients admitted to the SRU between May-November 2002 and April-November 2004 was performed applying the UK National Sentinel Audit of Stroke (NSAS) tool. RESULTS: The results of the study reveal that while SRU processes of care was 74% compliant with standards; compliance with stroke service organisational standards was only 15 and 43% in the RGH and SRU, respectively. CONCLUSION: The quality of stroke care in our area is deficient. Comprehensive reorganisation of stroke services is imperative.Language
engISSN
1863-4362 (Electronic)0021-1265 (Linking)
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s11845-008-0193-4