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Contemporary trends and predictors of postacute service use and routine discharge home after stroke.

Prvu Bettger, Janet; McCoy, L; Smith, EE; Fonarow, GC; Schwamm, LH; Peterson, Eric David (J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-02-23)

BACKGROUND: Returning home after the hospital is a primary aim for healthcare; however, additional postacute care (PAC) services are sometimes necessary for returning stroke patients to their pre-event status. Recent trends ...

Patterns of care quality and prognosis among hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease.

Ovbiagele, B; Schwamm, LH; Smith, EE; Grau-Sepulveda, Maria; Saver, JL; Bhatt, DL; Hernandez, Adrian Felipe; ... (9 authors) (J Am Heart Assoc, 2014-06-05)

BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about the quality of care and outcomes for hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We examined quality of care and in-hospital prognoses among patients ...

Comparison of performance achievement award recognition with primary stroke center certification for acute ischemic stroke care.

Fonarow, GC; Liang, L; Smith, EE; Reeves, MJ; Saver, JL; Xian, Y; Hernandez, Adrian Felipe; ... (10 authors) (J Am Heart Assoc, 2013-10-14)

BACKGROUND: Hospital certification and recognition programs represent 2 independent but commonly used systems to distinguish hospitals, yet they have not been directly compared. This study assessed acute ischemic stroke ...

A risk score for in-hospital death in patients admitted with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke.

Dai, D; Fonarow, GC; Hernandez, Adrian Felipe; Olson, DaiWai M; Peterson, Eric David; Reeves, MJ; Saver, JL; ... (10 authors) (J Am Heart Assoc, 2013-01-28)

BACKGROUND: We aimed to derive and validate a single risk score for predicting death from ischemic stroke (IS), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHODS AND RESULTS: Data from 333 865 stroke ...