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VA's Stroke Project Improves Care - Outpatient Follow-up Remains Challenging
- Categorized in: 2012 Compendium of Federal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Inpatient Performance Measures For Stroke Care
- Thrombolytic therapy administered to eligible patients
- Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis
- Dysphasia screening before oral intake
- Antithrombotic by hospital day 2
- Assessed for rehabilitation
- Discharged on antithrombotic therapy
- Patients with atrial fibrillation receiving anticoagulation
- Discharge on cholesterol reducing medication
- Smoking cessation counseling
- Stroke education
- Early ambulation
- Fall risk assessment
- Pressure ulcer risk assessment
- NIH stroke scale completed
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