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Understanding clinicians' decisions to offer intravenous thrombolytic treatment to patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a protocol for a discrete choice experiment
Background Intravenous thrombolysis is an effective emergency treatment for acute ischaemic stroke for patients meeting specific criteria. Approximately 12% of eligible patients in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received thrombolysis in the first quarter of 2013, yet as many as 15% are eligible to receive treatment. Suboptimal use of thrombolysis may have been largely attributable to structural factors; however, with the widespread implementation of 24/7 hyper acute stroke services, continuing variation is likely to reflect differences in clinical decision-making, in particular the influence of ambiguous areas within ...
Source: BMJ Open - July 9, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: De Brun,, A., Flynn, D., Joyce, K., Ternent, L., Price, C., Rodgers, H., Ford, G. A., Lancsar, E., Rudd, M., Thomson, R. G. Tags: Open access, Health services research Protocol Source Type: research