Optimizing ischemic stroke outcomes: an interdisciplinary approach to poststroke rehabilitation in acute care

Article Abstract:

Ischemic stroke patients require comprehensive, prompt rehabilitation to avoid major disability. Many people may not consider stroke a medical emergency and delay urgent treatment. Hypertension largely contributes to the risk of stroke, a costly condition for both patient and family. Drug research focuses on ways to repair neuronal injury at the earliest. Antithrombotic drugs, such as heparin and warfarin, are controversial but fairly common in the management of stroke.

Health aspects, Methods, Complications and side effects, Stroke (Disease), Stroke, Stroke patients, Thrombolytic therapy, Home care, Medicine, Physical, Physical medicine and rehabilitation

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Cardiovascular outcomes management and managed care contracting: experience from St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute

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St Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, TX, focused on quality, finances and partnership in new implementing cardiovascular service programs that meet the demands of the managed care environment. A service line structure provides a collaborative team approach to outcomes management, quality assurance and patient care. Outcomes management is a continual process centered on improving the value of service.

Management, Hospitals, Coronary care units, Hospital services, Cardiovascular services

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Integrating information technology with an outcomes management program

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Information technology and evaluation of care outcomes are critical in enabling health care institutions to keep up with changes in the field of health care. Issues in linking outcomes management and information technology include data types, data set development and data quality. Computerized health records must progress through five levels to develop an electronic medical record that will produce a new era in outcomes management.

Medical care, Technology application, Information services, Medical records, Hospital records

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