Transitions of Care Stroke Disparity Study (TCSD-S)

Korábbi kezelés

• Discharged to inpatient rehabilitation, nursing home, subacute rehabilitation facilities or assisted living facilities. These facilities support medication adherence, provide prescribed diets, often provide in-house medical follow-up, and therefore disparities in TOSC are less likely to be detected and not amenable to the proposed interventions.

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• Cases with subarachnoid hemorrhage, transient ischemic attack (TIA), stroke not otherwise specified, no stroke related diagnosis, and admission for elective carotid intervention will be excluded.
• Prisoners will be excluded. The purpose of the project is to study the hospital-to-home transition of stroke care.
• Modified Rankin Scale of 0 after stroke. These individuals usually do not require any rehabilitation interventions and to avid the inclusion of predominately mild stroke patients.

Egyéb

• Unable to obtain consent from patient or legally authorized representative.
• Unavailable or unwilling to participate in the 30 and 90 day follow up telephone calls.

• Ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage patients age \>/=18 years that are discharged directly to home, or discharged to rehab
• Final diagnosis of ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage, included in the Get With
• The Guidelines- Stroke (GWTG-S) database.
• Patient or legally authorized representative provides consent
• Available by phone and willing to receive two follow-up calls.