Contemporary stroke care delivered in a specialised stroke bay, a neurology ward and a medical ward in Greece
Abstract
Introduction: Currently in Greece there are only two ‘stroke bays’ (SBs) and their efficacy compared to standard ward treatment has not been evaluated.
Aim: To provide baseline data on stroke case-mix and compare death rates in two Greek hospitals (A+B, i.e. with & without a SB).
Material and Methods: One hundrend sixty four acute stroke patients from two hospitals were consecutively selected in order to explore approaches to stroke care in three different types of care delivery settings. A descriptive design with group comparisons was employedand data gathering included patient case mix, age and length of stay (LOS), neurological status and death rates. Kaplan-Meier curves we reused for survival analysis and independent samples t test and Z test for group comparisons at p<0.05.
Results: Of the 164 patients, 88 (44.4%, female) werein hospital A and 76 (42.1%, female) in hospital B. The mean age was 65.7 and 69.1 years respectively, LOS was 7.6 (3-18) and 7.3 days (1-26), while death rate was 6.8% and 10.5% respectively.
Discussion: Survival analysis for the two hospitalsshowed that there are no statistically significant differences regarding death and survival rates between the two hospitals, even when one had a SB. Yet, the SB shows a statistically significant reduction in overall LOS.
Conclusions: In societies where stroke units are not yet established, a SB might be an economical way of making use of (limited) available resources and raising nursing and medical standards of care by motivating the full potential of staff involved.
Article Details
- How to Cite
-
Theofanidis, D., Fountouki, A., Savopoulos, C., Hatzitolios, A., Fitsioris, X., & Rudolf, J. (2019). Contemporary stroke care delivered in a specialised stroke bay, a neurology ward and a medical ward in Greece. Health & Research Journal, 5(4), 163–171. https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.22070
- Section
- Research Articles
A) OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The journal "Health and Research Journal", follows an open access policy both for submission and accessing of articles.
Specifically the journal:
1. Claims no financial or any other gain from the author or authors of an article, neither for submission to the journal for publication, nor for revision and modification when peer reviewed.
2. Claims no financial or any other gain by articles' authors or by readers of the journal, for reading or downloading any article.
3. Reserves the right for the content and format of the printed article, not to be altered and to be used freely, preserving the form, the logo, the layout and the text as it is, a true copy of the file provided by the journal, with free access. (See also section C. Copyright Policy)
[The aforementioned apply equally for everyone and there is not any differentiation, restriction or other specific condition]
You can also ask more on the subject, from the editorial team of the journal, by sending mail to the journal.
B) SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY
The journal "Health and Research journal", allows self-archiving of articles by the author or authors, under the following terms.
The journal allows:
1. The free self-archiving from the author, of a pre-printed article, at any stage of preparation it is, without limitations. As pre-printed, we consider the work that the author has not submitted yet to the journal and that certainly has not yet been peer reviewed.
2. The free self-archiving from the author, of the final, pre-printed article, that has been corrected and reviewed from the journal, with the expressed obligation to indicate that the article will be published by the journal "Health and Research Journal" and that it has been reviewed (or it is currently reviewed) by the journal's peer review process.
3. The free self-archiving from the author, of the final, printed article that has been published in the journal ""Health and Research Journal" with the expressed obligation to use only the printed pdf file of the journal (exact copy), that has the same logo, format and layout, as it is shared freely by the journal.
For more information on self-archiving policy, please contact the following link: OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)
You can also ask more on the subject, from the editorial team of the journal, by sending mail to journal.
C) COPYRIGHT POLICY
The journal "Health and Research Journal" reserves the rights for copyright of the content of the website and also the copyright of the articles published.
Specifically:
1. Does not allow any reproduction of part or whole of the content of the journal's website, if the original source is not explicitly stated.
2. Does not allow the usage, by third party, of journal's direct links to the pdf files (printed articles), if the original source is not explicitly stated (necessarily the name of the journal and optionally: year, volume, issue, pages).
3. All the members of the editorial board accept and comply with the national and international laws regarding copyrighted material, plagiarism and text-piracy, both for the content of the journal's website, as for the content of the published articles.
You can also ask more on the subject, from the editorial team of the journal, by sending mail to the journal.
D) PLAGIARISM POLICY
The journal "Health and Research Journal", reserves the right for detecting plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation, either with the use of special software or manually, at any stage before publication. For published articles by the journal, originality may also be checked after specific private complaint.
In case of plagiarism detection:
1. If the percentage of the manuscript's plagiarism is below 26%, the journal will contact and inform the author, asking for further revision and resubmission.
2. If the percentage of the manuscript's plagiarism is over 25%, the journal will contact and inform the author about the rejection of the article, without editorial review. Author is then advised to fully revise the manuscript before its new sumbission.
