A nationwide English study shows that highly organized stroke centers perform better on core process measures and have a correspondingly lower stroke mortality rate.
Healthcare stakeholders increasingly focus on reporting and comparing measures of the quality of care. Ideally, quality measures would involve health outcomes, but these may reflect unmeasured differences in patient characteristics rather than differences in care quality. We can more easily measure compliance with healthcare processes, but this may not always lead to better health outcomes. In particular, the relation between compliance with quality process measures and stroke outcomes is unclear based on existing studies, none of which has been methodologically robust.
To address this uncertainty, investigators prospectively examined compliance with process measures and its association with stroke mortality across centers participating in a…
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Grant / Research supportNational Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Michael Goldberg Stroke Research Fund
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Leadership positions in professional societiesNeurocritical Care Society (Research Committee Member)
DisclosuresSpeaker’s bureauGenentech
Grant / Research supportNational Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Michael Goldberg Stroke Research Fund
Editorial boardsPLOS One; Scientific Reports
Leadership positions in professional societiesNeurocritical Care Society (Research Committee Member)