This summary is based on the National Stroke Foundation Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010 which have been approved by the NHMRC and endorsed by the Royal College of Nursing, Australia. It presents a sub-set of recommendations from the Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management considered ...
Australian and international guidelines (the National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC] -approved clinical guidelines for stroke management, the United Kingdom Royal College of Physicians stroke guidelines and the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association guidelines) recommend ...
Self-management interventions are increasingly being developed and tested as a potential pathway for improving longer-term care and outcomes after stroke. Clinical guidelines in a number of countries (including the UK [15, 16], USA [17], Canada [18] and Australia [19]) have recommended that ...
This is discordant with other studies denoting that women were less likely to receive thrombolytic therapy and this was partly attributed to less adherence to management guidelines [51, 54, 55]. Besides, a meta-analysis of 17 studies, with over a million stroke patients, indicated that treatment...
The management of stroke survivors is a complex, lengthy, and interdisciplinary process. During this process, GPs may encounter some challenges. For example, Australian guidelines recommend developing comprehensive discharge care plans with stroke survivors and caregivers and sharing them with GPs [82]....
Additional Contributions: Michele Sallaberger, MSc (Neuroscience Trials Australia, the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, Australia), coordinated study management and received compensation for her role in the study. References 1. Powers WJ, Rabinstein AA, Ackerson T...
information about how living guidelines are developed, maintained and applied is limited. The Stroke Foundation in Australia was one of the first organisations to apply living guideline development methods for their Living Stroke Guidelines (LSGs), presenting a unique opportunity to evaluate the process...
Notably, hypertensive medication non-adherence poses a challenge to clinicians and health policymakers and increases the burdens of stroke and other cardiac complications that could have been avoided with proper management. This issue requires health policy actions to prevent further morbidity and mortality...
Objectives: To assess the readiness of hospitals in Riyadh to establish acute stroke centers by following the Australian Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management. Methods: This study was a quantitative cross-sectional observational study conducted among hospitals in the central region of Saudi Arabia (...
“University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University [Cleveland, USA] have always been at the forefront of medical advances,” Bambakidis stated. “The SELECT LATE global trial will have a tremendous impact on acute stroke management, not only individually but also in...