Door-in-door-out times for interhospital transfer of patients with stroke

B Stamm, R Royan, M Giurcanu, SR Messe, EC Jauch… - JAMA, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Treatments for time-sensitive acute stroke are not available at every hospital,
often requiring interhospital transfer. Current guidelines recommend hospitals achieve a …

A network approach to stroke systems of care

KS Zachrison, A Dhand, LH Schwamm… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
The landscape of stroke systems of care is evolving as patients are increasingly transferred
between hospitals for access to higher levels of care. This is driven by time-sensitive …

Emergency care of patients with acute ischemic stroke

AS Zubair, KN Sheth - Neurologic Clinics, 2021 - neurologic.theclinics.com
With 26,000,000 people worldwide experiencing a stroke every year, stroke is the second-
leading cause of mortality worldwide and a leading cause of long-term disability. 1, 2 …

Use, temporal trends, and outcomes of endovascular therapy after interhospital transfer in the United States

S Shah, Y Xian, S Sheng, KS Zachrison, JL Saver… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The use of endovascular therapy (EVT) in patients with acute ischemic stroke
who have large vessel occlusion has rapidly increased in the United States following pivotal …

National Cost Estimates of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Tracheostomy in Acute Stroke, 2008–2017

GP Albert, DC McHugh, DY Hwang, CJ Creutzfeldt… - Stroke, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Patients with stroke receiving invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and
tracheostomy incur intense treatment and long hospitalizations. We aimed to evaluate US …

A Conceptual Framework for Optimizing the Equity of Hospital‐Based Emergency Care: The Structure of Hospital Transfer Networks

C Hsuan, BG Carr, D Vanness, Y Wang… - The Milbank …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points Current pay‐for‐performance and other payment policies ignore hospital
transfers for emergency conditions, which may exacerbate disparities. No conceptual …

Early lessons from world war COVID reinventing our stroke systems of care

SA Sheth, TC Wu, A Sharrief, C Ankrom, JC Grotta… - Stroke, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
The global pandemic ignited by SARS-CoV2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2) infection has shaken the foundations of healthcare delivery across the world …

[HTML][HTML] Cost-consequence analysis of mobile stroke units vs. standard prehospital care and transport

AP Reimer, A Zafar, FM Hustey, D Kralovic… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Mobile stroke units (MSUs) are the latest approach to improving time-sensitive
stroke care delivery. Currently, there are no published studies looking at the expanded value …

Trends in interhospital transfers and mechanical thrombectomy for United States acute ischemic stroke inpatients

BP George, TA Pieters, CG Zammit, AG Kelly… - Journal of Stroke and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective: Stroke care in the US is increasingly regionalized. Many patients undergo
interhospital transfer to access specialized, time-sensitive interventions such as mechanical …

Influence of hospital characteristics on hospital transfer destinations for patients with stroke

KS Zachrison, V Amati, LH Schwamm… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Patients with stroke are frequently transferred between hospitals. This may
have implications on the quality of care received by patients; however, it is not well …