Translating Evidence Into Practice: A Decade of Efforts by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association to Reduce Death and Disability Due to Stroke

Temporal Trends in Patient Characteristics and Treatment With Intravenous Thrombolysis Among Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients at Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals

“…This substantial improvement is attributable in part to a decade of national efforts in stroke quality improvement targeting hospital-based processes. 10 Similar increases in the rate of intravenous tPA use have been reported in US Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry, 7,9 the National Hospital Discharge Survey, 11 and the population-based Cincinnati-Kentucky region. 8 Our data suggest a shift in the population of patients treated with intravenous tPA by hospital-based providers.…”

Use of Mobile Devices, Social Media, and Crowdsourcing as Digital Strategies to Improve Emergency Cardiovascular Care

“…9,10 Similarly, for stroke, there continue to be advances in door-to-needle times, but stroke symptom recognition and seeking of treatment by patients and their families remain a major barrier to timely stroke care. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Public and clinician education efforts alone are not sufficient to reduce gaps and unnecessary variation in time, which suggests a need for new strategies to address this challenge.…”

Most Important Outcomes Research Papers on Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack

“…17,18 The epidemiology of stroke in the US has changed over time, and death attributable to stroke has declined 1,19 due to changes in the landscape of risk factors and therapies and the implementation of guidelines and stroke systems of care. 20,22 Despite these improvements, the disease burden is still substantial with close to 800 000 Americans suffering from stroke each year 3 and many questions remain about the variation in risk factors and delivery of care.…”