The American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke development and impact on stroke care

CH Ormseth, KN Sheth, JL Saver… - Stroke and vascular …, 2017 - svn.bmj.com
The American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke programme has
changed stroke care delivery in the USA since its establishment in 2003. GWTG is a …

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 …

Assessing stroke severity using electronic health record data: a machine learning approach

E Kogan, K Twyman, J Heap, D Milentijevic… - BMC medical informatics …, 2020 - Springer
Background Stroke severity is an important predictor of patient outcomes and is commonly
measured with the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores. Because these …

Prospective observational cohort study of tenecteplase versus alteplase in routine clinical practice

SJ Warach, AN Dula, TJ Milling, S Miller, L Allen… - Stroke, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: A 10-hospital regional network transitioned to tenecteplase as the standard of
care stroke thrombolytic in September 2019 because of potential workflow advantages and …

Nationwide trends in incidence and mortality of stroke among younger and older adults in Denmark

N Skajaa, K Adelborg, E Horváth-Puhó, KJ Rothman… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To investigate the extent to which the incidence and mortality of a first-time stroke
among younger and older adults changed from 2005 to 2018 in Denmark using nationwide …

Distributional validity and prognostic power of the national institutes of health stroke scale in US administrative claims data

H Saber, JL Saver - JAMA neurology, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Comparative assessment of acute ischemic stroke care quality provided by
hospitals in the United States has been hampered by the unavailability of the National …

Shorter door-to-needle times are associated with better outcomes after intravenous thrombolytic therapy and endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke

S Man, N Solomon, B Mac Grory, B Alhanti, K Uchino… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Existing data and clinical trials could not determine whether faster intravenous
thrombolytic therapy (IVT) translates into better long-term functional outcomes after acute …

Comparison of acute ischemic stroke care and outcomes between comprehensive stroke centers and primary stroke centers in the United States

S Man, X Zhao, K Uchino, MS Hussain… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: To improve stroke care, the Brain Attack Coalition recommended establishing
primary stroke center (PSC) and comprehensive stroke center (CSC) certification. This study …

Association of socioeconomic status and infarct volume with functional outcome in patients with ischemic stroke

A Ghoneem, MT Osborne, S Abohashem… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Long-term disability after stroke is associated with socioeconomic status (SES).
However, the reasons for such disparities in outcomes remain unclear. Objective To assess …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation of a model predicting mild stroke severity on admission using electronic health record data

KJ Waddell, LJ Myers, AJ Perkins, JJ Sico… - Journal of Stroke and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Initial stroke severity is a potent modifier of stroke outcomes but this information is
difficult to obtain from electronic health record (EHR) data. This limits the ability to risk-adjust …