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Stroke ; 54(4): 1160-1170, 2023 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36846953

ABSTRACT

Globally, national stroke registries have been shown to improve the quality of patient care and outcomes. However, registry utilization and implementation vary by country. In the United States, stroke-specific performance measures must be met to achieve and maintain stroke center certification awarded by the state or nationally accredited certifying bodies. The 2 stroke registries available in the United States are the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry, which is voluntary, and the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry, funded competitively to states by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Compliance with stroke processes of care is variable, and quality improvement initiatives among organizations have been shown to have an impact on improving stroke care delivery. However, the effectiveness of interorganizational continuous quality improvement approaches, especially among competing institutions, to improving stroke care is ambiguous, and no uniform governance for successful interhospital collaboration has been identified. The purpose of this article is to review national initiatives focused on interorganizational collaboration to improve stroke care delivery with a focus on interhospital collaboration in the United States to improve stroke performance measures specific to stroke center certification. The state of Kentucky's experience and utilization of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Breakthrough Series model with key strategies for success will be discussed to serve as a foundation and empower novice stroke leaders in learning health systems. The models may be adapted internationally for application to stroke-specific care process improvement locally, regionally, and nationally; among organizations within the same health system or competing systems; and among organizations with funding or without funding to improve stroke performance measures.


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Stroke , Humans , United States , Stroke/diagnosis , Stroke/therapy , Registries , Hospitals , Quality Improvement , Delivery of Health Care
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Circ Res ; 122(2): 213-230, 2018 01 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29348251

ABSTRACT

Cardiovascular disparities remain pervasive in the United States. Unequal disease burden is evident among population groups based on sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational attainment, nativity, or geography. Despite the significant declines in cardiovascular disease mortality rates in all demographic groups during the last 50 years, large disparities remain by sex, race, ethnicity, and geography. Recent data from modeling studies, linked micromap plots, and small-area analyses also demonstrate prominent variation in cardiovascular disease mortality rates across states and counties, with an especially high disease burden in the southeastern United States and Appalachia. Despite these continued disparities, few large-scale intervention studies have been conducted in these high-burden populations to examine the feasibility of reducing or eliminating cardiovascular disparities. To address this challenge, on June 22 and 23, 2017, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened experts from a broad range of biomedical, behavioral, environmental, implementation, and social science backgrounds to summarize the current state of knowledge of cardiovascular disease disparities and propose intervention strategies aligned with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute mission. This report presents the themes, challenges, opportunities, available resources, and recommended actions discussed at the workshop.


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Biomedical Research/trends , Cardiovascular Diseases/therapy , Education/trends , Healthcare Disparities/trends , National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.)/trends , Research Report/trends , Biomedical Research/economics , Biomedical Research/methods , Cardiovascular Diseases/economics , Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology , Community Health Services/economics , Community Health Services/methods , Community Health Services/trends , Education/economics , Education/methods , Healthcare Disparities/economics , Humans , National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.)/economics , United States/epidemiology
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