Identifying Best Practices for Improving the Evaluation and Management of Stroke in Rural Lower-Resourced Settings
Published: December 12, 2024
- There is significant variation in the delivery of acute stroke care and stroke patient outcomes due, in part, to variation in resources (disparities) between emergency departments in the US most notably felt in rural areas.
- Reducing rural health disparities related to stroke requires investment in these more remote community emergency departments as the anchor of the larger community’s stroke chain of survival.
- This scientific statement examines rural communities stroke disparities related to access, variation in stroke-related capabilities and short-term
Supporting Materials
- Commentary: Identifying Best Practices for Improving the Evaluation and Management of Stroke in Rural Lower Resourced Settings by Marco Gonzalez, MD, FAHA
- Top Things to Know: Identifying Best Practices for Improving the Acute Evaluation and Management of Stroke in Rural and Lower Resourced Settings
- Slide Set: Identifying best practices for improving the evaluation & management of stroke in rural lower-resourced settings
Recommended Reading
- Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update to the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Identifying Best Practices to Improve Evaluation and Management of In-Hospital Stroke
- Care of the Patient With Acute Ischemic Stroke (Prehospital and Acute Phase of Care): Update to the 2009 Comprehensive Nursing Care Scientific Statement
- Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care: A 2019 Update