Benchmarks for acute stroke care delivery

Guidelines, Therapies Monday, October 21st, 2013

Int J Qual Health Care: October 17, 2013

Objective Despite widespread interest in many jurisdictions in monitoring and improving the quality of stroke care delivery, benchmarks for most stroke performance indicators have not been established. The objective of this study was to develop data-derived benchmarks for acute stroke quality indicators.

Design Nine key acute stroke quality indicators were selected from the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Performance Measures Manual.

Participants A population-based retrospective sample of patients discharged from 142 hospitals in Ontario, Canada, between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009 (N = 3191) was used to calculate hospital rates of performance and benchmarks.

Intervention The Achievable Benchmark of Care (ABC™) methodology was used to create benchmarks based on the performance of the upper 15% of patients in the top-performing hospitals. Read more

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