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Does service heterogeneity have an impact on acute hospital length of stay in stroke?:A UK-based multicentre prospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether stroke patients' acute hospital length of stay (AHLOS) varies between hospitals, over and above case mix differences and to investigate the hospital-level explanatory factors.
, Anglia Stroke Clinical Network Evaluation Study (ASCNES) Group, Bachmann, Max, McLernon, David, Musgrave, Stanley, Myint, Phyo Kyaw, Potter, John F, Tørnes, Michelle, Warburton, Elizabeth A   +7 more
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Value of MRI Outcomes for Preventive and Early‐Stage Trials in Spinocerebellar Ataxias 1 and 3

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the value of MRI outcomes as endpoints for preventive and early‐stage trials of two polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). Methods A cohort of 100 participants (23 SCA1, 63 SCA3, median Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) score = 5, 42% preataxic, and 14 gene‐negative controls) was scanned at 3T up ...
Thiago J. R. Rezende, Emilien Petit, Young Woo Park, Sophie Tezenas du Montcel, James M. Joers, Jonathan M. DuBois, H. Moore Arnold, Michal Povazan, Ipek Özdemir, Guita Banan, Romain Valabregue, Philipp Ehses, Jennifer Faber, Chiadi U. Onyike, Peter B. Barker, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Eva‐Maria Ratai, Sub H. Subramony, Thomas H. Mareci, Khalaf O. Bushara, Henry Paulson, Thomas Klockgether, Alexandra Durr, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Christophe Lenglet, Gülin Öz, READISCA Investigators   +26 more
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Report of the Integrated Stroke Care Workshop [PDF]

, 2000
The Stroke Project has been underway since October 2000. This workshop represented the first mechanism where by issues surrounding the project have been addressed by the multi- disciplinary stroke team and the Darent Valley Hospital Staff.
Meade, F., O'Neill, Declan, Woodley, R.
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Risk factors for chest infection in acute stroke: a prospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2007
<p><b>Background and Purpose:</b> Pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality after stroke. We aimed to determine key characteristics that would allow prediction of those patients who are at highest risk for poststroke ...
Bagg, J., Bowie, L., Langhorne, P., Miller, H., Sellars, C., Stott, D.J., Sweeney, M.P., Tilston, J.   +7 more
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Feasibility and Tolerability of Performing Portable MRI for Neurological Disorders in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic: A Prospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick, Nomin Enkhtsetseg, Joseph Sadok, Matheus Mochetti, Annabel Sorby Adams, Jennifer Guo, Cristina Trapaga Hacker, Isabella Gomez Hjerthen, Seungwon Lee, Siddharth Satish, Andrew S. Ham, Justin Hill, Denis Balaban, Kevin Kyle, Rebecca L. Gillani, Marcelo Matiello, Aleksandar Videnovic, Eric C. Klawiter, W. Taylor Kimberly, Farrah J. Mateen   +19 more
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease: Spectrum of Symptoms, Clinical Progress and Diagnostics—Report of Five Cases

NeuroSci
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, fatal prion disease of the central nervous system that develops due to the conversion of the normal cellular protein PrPc to the abnormal PrPSc molecule. The first clinical cases were described in the 1920s. The
Klaudia Rojewska, Natalia Dynowska, Iwona Rotter, Małgorzata Niekrasz   +3 more
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Health care and hospitalisation costs of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Thailand [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become a leading cause of death and disability in Thailand due to the unhealthy lifestyle of the populace; triggering high risk of exposure to CVD, increase in the number of hospital admissions year on year.
Collins, Karen, IInthawong, Rungkarn, Ismail, Mubarak, Khatab, Khaled, Raheem, M, Whitfield, Malcolm   +5 more
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Fluid Biomarkers of Disease Burden and Cognitive Dysfunction in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Identifying objective biomarkers for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is crucial to improving diagnosis and establishing clinical trial and treatment endpoints. This study evaluated fluid biomarkers in PSP versus controls and their associations with regional 18F‐PI‐2620 tau‐PET, clinical, and cognitive outcomes.
Roxane Dilcher, Charles B. Malpas, Stuart J. McDonald, William T. O’Brien, Craig Despott, Kelly L. Bertram, Matthew P. Pase, Lukas Frontzkowski, Meng Law, Terence J. O’Brien, Lucy Vivash   +10 more
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Stroke rehabilitation in low resource countries: time to provide an organised service

South Sudan Medical Journal
Introduction: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The proven efficacy for rehabilitation interventions in improving stroke outcomes in LMICs supports the need to strengthen the ...
Mehran Maanoosi
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Increase in national intravenous thrombolysis rates for ischaemic stroke between 2005 and 2012: Is bigger better? [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Intravenous thrombolytic therapy after ischaemic stroke significantly reduces mortality and morbidity. Actual thrombolysis rates are disappointingly low in many western countries. It has been suggested that higher patient volume is related to
Limburg, M., Lingsma, H.F. (Hester), Middelkoop, I., Scherf, S., Wimmers, R.   +4 more
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