follows: myocardial infarction 9.0 versus 3.2%; stroke 8.7 versus 3.8%; hypertension 26.2 versus 16.9%; end-stage renal … complications 1.59; myocardial infarction 4.1; stroke 3.5; hypertension 2.56; end-stage renal disease 4.32; foot ulcer 4.0; and eye …

Stroke is a heterogeneous cerebrovascular disorder that is a major cause of death and disability in the industrialised … world. Anecdotal clinical evidence and expert opinion has suggested that organised stroke care results in better patient … inconclusive. However in 1993, a meta-analysis of 10 RTCs of patients assigned to acute care stroke units (ACSUs) versus routine …

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability and continues to have a great public health impact worldwide …. Management of patients with acute ischaemic stroke (IS) has been, until recently, primarily supportive care. A better … understanding of the mechanisms of stroke has stimulated a far more aggressive and active treatment strategy, and stroke is now …

Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability and the third leading cause of death in the US. Nearly $US40 ….9 billion (1997 values) are spent each year on direct and indirect stroke-related costs in the US alone. Length of hospital stay …, hospital overheads and nursing-related and rehabilitation costs account for the majority of stroke-related expenditures …

for stroke have been described in the medical literature and although the reported benefits have been mixed, more and more … hospitals are adopting clinical pathways as a management strategy for patients with stroke. In published clinical pathways for … acute stroke, the following benefits have been reported: 1. reduced use of expensive diagnostic studies 2. fewer …

has found that such patients spend a relatively small portion of their day in treatment. In this study 63 stroke patients …% of patients' time. Discriminant analysis showed that patients in the hospital with a separate stroke unit spent more time … deployment of staff. Clinical norms for the treatment of stroke across the three hospitals resulted in similar treatment …