Implementing best clinical practice for stroke patients across a private health service

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Stroke; Stroke - Haemorrhagic; Stroke - Ischaemic

• Registration Number: ACTRN12616000646448
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Natasha Brusco

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-05-18
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Patients admitted to Cabrini with a diagnosis of a stroke prior to the implementation of Stroke Clinical Guidelines (pre intervention group), and patients admitted to Cabrini after the implementation of Stroke Clinical Guidelines (post intervention group). Patients are adults admitted to Cabrini with either a primary or secondary diagnosis of stroke. A primary diagnosis of stroke indicates that a diagnosis of a new stroke was the primary reason for admission to Cabrini. A secondary diagnosis of stroke typically indicates that the patient was admitted to Cabrini with another unrelated diagnosis and has had a diagnosis of a new stroke during the hospital admission.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients are excluded if they are admitted to a hospital that is not Cabrini.
Any patient who has not had an ischaemic or haemorrhagic stroke within the dedicated retrospective and prospective time frames is excluded from the trial.
Note that a past medical history of stroke is not a secondary diagnosis of stroke.
Only the first 100 retrospective patients (working in reverse chronological order) and 100 prospective patients (working in chronological order) are evaluated. Patients who fall outside of said time frames and patient number will be excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Compliance with the Stroke Clinical Guidelines (National Stroke Foundation Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management' 2010) will be measured via patient medical record audit against the set criteria set out in the Stroke Clinical Guidelines.[There are three periods for the research project and two groups.<br>Pre-intervention Group: Period prior to September 2014 and prior to the implementation of the Stroke Clinical Guidelines.<br>Intervention Implementation: Period from September 2014 till June 2015 and refers to the period of time when the Clinical Guidelines were being implemented.<br>Post Intervention Group: Period after June 2015 and is following the implention of the stroke clinical guidelines.<br><br>Compliance is assessed for the pre and post intervention groups only (not the middle intervention implementation time period).<br>]