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Stroke

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Therapy

There is no clear benefit from an integrated care pathway for patient management d

Why?

  • Patients with an acute stroke treated on a stroke unit using an integrated care pathway compared with standard care were not clearly less likely to die or be institutionalised, nor spend less time in hospital. d

Expiry date: October 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   G  Donnan
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , CM   Ball