Variations in Quality Indicators of Acute Stroke Care in 6 European Countries
Author(s) -
Silke Wiedmann,
Bo Norrving,
Tim Nowe,
Sònia Abilleira,
Kjell Asplund,
Martin Dennis,
P Hermanek,
Anthony Rudd,
Vincent Thijs,
Charles Wolfe,
Peter U. Heuschmann
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.111.628396
Subject(s) - audit , medicine , benchmarking , european union , quality (philosophy) , documentation , stroke (engine) , quality management , population , performance indicator , accounting , environmental health , operations management , business , mechanical engineering , management system , philosophy , epistemology , marketing , computer science , economics , engineering , economic policy , programming language
Quality indicators serve as standards of care by which performance of individual hospitals is measured. Although several audits for monitoring quality of stroke care have been established in Europe, there is currently no consensus on quality indicators for acute stroke care or for methodology for collecting information on these measures.
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