How is stroke care organised in Europe? - 19/12/16

Doi : 10.1016/j.lpm.2016.10.004

Valentina Arnao ¹, Nemanja Popovic ², Valeria Caso ^3,^⁎
¹ University of Palermo, Medicina Clinica e Scienze del Comportamento-Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialistic Medicine (DiBiMIS), Palermo, Italy
² Clinic of Neurology, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
³ University of Perugia, Stroke Unit and Division of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, Perugia, Italy

^⁎Valeria Caso, University of Perugia, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Stroke Unit and Division of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, Via G. Dottori 1, Perugia 06100, Italy.

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Summary

Introduction

There is a wide difference in stroke care in European Countries, conditioning the performance in stroke management.

Objective

The authors review current national and regional stroke organisational models and their adherence to current European Stroke Organisation (ESO) guidelines across the Europe and on-going European Stroke Projects. Stroke Care Models investigated in: Austria, Switzerland, Bavaria (Germany), London and Greater Manchester in the UK, Catalonia (Spain), Lombardy Region in Italy, Poland and Northern Portugal.

Discussion

There is a lack of uniform stroke care in European Countries as defined by current ESO guidelines. For this reason, ESO has established the Stroke Unit Certification Platform to make uniform stroke care systems with high quality performances in every part of Europe.

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