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Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC): process evaluation of an intervention to improve the management of fever, hyperglycemia, and swallowing dysfunction following acute stroke
BackgroundOur randomized controlled trial of a multifaceted evidence‐based intervention for improving the inpatient management of fever, hyperglycemia, and swallowing dysfunction in the first three‐days following stroke improved outcomes at 90 days by 15%. We designed a quantitative process evaluation to further explain and illuminate this finding. MethodsBlinded retrospective medical record audits were undertaken for patients from 19 stroke units prior to and following the implementation of three multidisciplinary evidence‐based protocols (supported by team‐building workshops, and site‐based education and suppor...
Source: International Journal of Stroke - December 1, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Peta Drury, Christopher Levi, Catherine D'Este, Patrick McElduff, Elizabeth McInnes, Jennifer Hardy, Simeon Dale, N Wah Cheung, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Clare Quinn, Jeanette Ward, Malcolm Evans, Dominique Cadilhac, Rhonda Griffiths, Sandy Middleton Tags: Research Source Type: research

Stroke risk in treatment of type 2 diabetes in China: a 7 year retrospective cohort study
Publication date: November 2016 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Volume 4, Supplement 1 Author(s): Rui Liu, Qing Wang, Vivian Szeto, Andrew Barszczyk, Tianru Jin, Edoardo Mannucci, Hong-Shuo Sun, Zhong-Ping Feng Background Diabetes and stroke are leading causes of death and disability, and major public health concerns in China, which accounts for 25% of patients with diabetes worldwide. Type 2 diabetes is an independent risk factor for cerebral ischaemia and accounts for about 20% of stroke cases. We previously showed that KATP channel activation provides neuroprotection against cerebral ischaemia and t...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - November 17, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

European Academy of Neurology – European Stroke Organisation consensus statement and practical guidance for pre‐hospital management of stroke
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Source: European Journal of Neurology - December 7, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: A. Kobayashi, A. Czlonkowska, G.A. Ford, A.C. Fonseca, G.J. Luijckx, J. Korv, N. P érez de la Ossa, C. Price, D. Russell, A. Tsiskaridze, M. Messmer‐Wullen, J. De Keyser Tags: Guidelines Source Type: research

EPMA-World Congress 2015
Table of contents A1 Predictive and prognostic biomarker panel for targeted application of radioembolisation improving individual outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma Jella-Andrea Abraham, Olga Golubnitschaja A2 Integrated market access approach amplifying value of “Rx-CDx” Ildar Akhmetov A3 Disaster response: an opportunity to improve global healthcare Russell J. Andrews, Leonidas Quintana A4 USA PPPM: proscriptive, profligate, profiteering medicine-good for 1 % wealthy, not for 99 % unhealthy Russell J. Andrews A5 The role of ...
Source: EPMA Journal - May 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Declines In Dementia: Of Hearts And Minds
In this season when we are meant to be thankful, but when so many of us have had so many reasons to be otherwise, we have received a timely, welcome bit of universally good news. Rates of dementia in the United States appear to be declining. This news reaches us courtesy of a study published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine. The investigators used standard, validated measures of cognitive function and dementia in two groups of more than 10,000 people in the U.S. with an average age of roughly 75 in the year 2000, and again in 2012. The overall rate of dementia declined over that span from 11.6% to 8.8%. Taking ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 27, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news