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Introduction: Role of the hospitalist in secondary stroke prevention care
Author(s) -
Likosky David J.,
Brown David M.,
Lee Kiwon,
Dressler Daniel David,
Jamieson Dara G.,
Krakow David,
Rahman Saad,
Amin Alpesh
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of hospital medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.128
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1553-5606
pISSN - 1553-5592
DOI - 10.1002/jhm.332
Subject(s) - medicine , hospital medicine , stroke (engine) , medline , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , medical emergency , family medicine , mechanical engineering , political science , law , engineering
Stroke is a prevalent and often devastating condition that is likely to affect a growing proportion of the United States population in the coming decades. Individuals who have experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack are at elevated risk for recurrent events, which are frequently more severe. Therefore, secondary prevention has become the focus of much clinical research and widespread initiatives to deliver evidence‐based care. Hospitalists are in a unique position to contribute substantially to these efforts. The 4 articles in this supplement are a call to action for hospital‐based physicians. They are based on the conclusions of a panel of hospitalists, neurohospitalists, vascular neurologists, and neurointensivists who met for a roundtable discussion in March 2007. This, the first of the 4 articles, discusses the opportunity for hospitalists to take a leadership role in creating stroke systems of care that integrate secondary stroke prevention with inpatient treatment of acute stroke. The articles that follow will summarize the consensus of roundtable participants on stroke care best practices and their implementation. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2008;3(4 Suppl):S1–S5. © 2008 Society of Hospital Medicine.