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  1. Protocol for a feasibility registry-based randomised controlled trial investigating a tailored follow-up service for stroke (A-LISTS)
  2. Comparisons between group- and individual-based interventions to support recovery from stroke and ischaemic heart disease in the community: a scoping review
  3. A systematic review of current national hospital-based stroke registries that monitor access to evidence based care and patient outcomes
  4. Comparing acute hospital outcomes for people with post-stroke aphasia who do and do not require an interpreter
  5. Factors Associated With Transition From Community to Permanent Residential Aged Care Following Stroke: A Linked Registry Data Study
  6. A Network of Sites and Upskilled Therapists to Deliver Best-Practice Stroke Rehabilitation of the Arm: Protocol for a Knowledge Translation Study
  7. Co-design of a multicomponent support program for secondary prevention using digital health technology for people living with stroke or transient ischaemic attack (Preprint)
  8. Is communication key in stroke rehabilitation and recovery? National linked stroke data study
  9. A Scoping Review of mHealth Interventions for Secondary Prevention of Stroke: Implications for Policy and Practice
  10. Framingham risk score prediction at 12 months in the STANDFIRM randomised control trial
  11. Advances in Stroke: A Focus on Health Policy Literature From 2022
  12. How registry data are used to inform activities for stroke care quality improvement across 55 countries: A cross‐sectional survey of Registry of Stroke Care Quality (RES‐Q) hospitals
  13. Screening, prevention, and management of patients with poststroke depression in a tertiary hospital in China: a best practice implementation project
  14. Twenty years of monitoring acute stroke care in Australia through the national stroke audit programme (1999–2019): A cross-sectional study
  15. Improving Practice for Urinary Continence Care on Adult Acute Medical and Rehabilitation Wards: A Multi-Site, Co-Created Implementation Study
  16. Stroke Learning Health Systems: A Topical Narrative Review With Case Examples
  17. Ethnic differences in stroke outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national linkage study
  18. Receipt of Mental Health Treatment in People Living With Stroke: Associated Factors and Long-Term Outcomes
  19. Understanding Stroke Guidelines for Aphasia Management
  20. Comparison of Stroke Care Costs in Urban and Nonurban Hospitals and Its Association With Outcomes in New Zealand: A Nationwide Economic Evaluation
  21. Care Transition Interventions to Improve Stroke Outcomes: Evidence Gaps in Underserved and Minority Populations
  22. Antihypertensive Medication Adherence and the Risk of Vascular Events and Falls After Stroke: A Real-World Effectiveness Study Using Linked Registry Data
  23. Costs of Hospital Care for Strokes in India: A Scoping Review
  24. A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trial to Improve Adherence to Evidence-Based Practices for Acute Stroke Management
  25. Development, implementation, and evaluation of the Australian Stroke Data Tool (AuSDaT): Comprehensive data capturing for multiple uses
  26. Translation of nurse-initiated protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing following stroke across Europe (QASC Europe): A pre-test/post-test implementation study
  27. Does a History of Cancer Influence the Effectiveness of Statins on Outcomes After Stroke?
  28. Global stroke statistics 2022
  29. Understanding of medications and associations with adherence, unmet needs, and perceived control of risk factors at two years post-stroke
  30. Mobility-Focused Physical Outcome Measures Over Telecommunication Technology (Zoom): Intra and Interrater Reliability Trial
  31. Exploring barriers to stroke coordinator roles in Australia: A national survey
  32. Personalized knowledge to reduce the risk of stroke (PERKS-International): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  33. Determining the sensitivity of emergency dispatcher and paramedic diagnosis of stroke: statewide registry linkage study
  34. Costs of acute hospitalisation for stroke and transient ischaemic attack in Australia
  35. Mobile Stroke Units: Evidence, Gaps, and Next Steps
  36. Stroke Care Costs and Cost-Effectiveness to Inform Health Policy
  37. Geographic Disparities in Stroke Outcomes and Service Access
  38. Living clinical guidelines for stroke: updates, challenges and opportunities
  39. Results of the COMPARE trial of Constraint-induced or Multimodality Aphasia Therapy compared with usual care in chronic post-stroke aphasia
  40. The Mobile Stroke Unit Nurse: An International Exploration of Their Scope of Practice, Education, and Training
  41. Mobility focussed physical outcome measures over telehealth using Zoom platform: intra and inter-rater reliability trial (Preprint)
  42. Factors associated with mental health service access among Australian community-dwelling survivors of stroke
  43. Denial of Cerebrovascular Events in a National Clinical Quality Registry for Stroke: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  44. Effect of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on the Quality of Stroke Care in Stroke Units and Alternative Wards: A National Comparative Analysis
  45. Quality of life after stroke: a longitudinal analysis of a cluster randomized trial
  46. Real-World Effectiveness of Lipid-Lowering Medications on Outcomes after Stroke: Potential Implications of the New-User Design
  47. Benefit of linking hospital resource information and patient-level stroke registry data
  48. Case-Fatality and Functional Outcome after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) in INternational STRoke oUtComes sTudy (INSTRUCT)
  49. Optimal Measures for Primary Care Physician Encounters after Stroke and Association with Survival: A Data Linkage Study
  50. Co-Designing a New Yoga-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Survivors of Stroke: A Formative Evaluation
  51. Understanding Coordinator Roles in Acute Stroke Care: A National Survey
  52. Greater Adherence to Secondary Prevention Medications Improves Survival After Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: A Linked Registry Study
  53. Quality of Care and One-Year Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes Hospitalised for Stroke or TIA: A Linked Registry Study
  54. What is “usual care” in the rehabilitation of upper limb sensory loss after stroke? Results from a national audit and knowledge translation study
  55. Factors associated with arrival by ambulance for patients with stroke: a multicentre, national data linkage study
  56. Healing Right Way: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to enhance rehabilitation services and improve quality of life in Aboriginal Australians after brain injury
  57. Understanding the Role of External Facilitation to Drive Quality Improvement for Stroke Care in Hospitals
  58. Telestroke for acute ischaemic stroke: A systematic review of economic evaluations and a de novo cost–utility analysis for a middle income country
  59. Protocol for the development of the international population registry for aphasia after stroke (I-PRAISE)
  60. Agreement between pharmaceutical claims data and patient-reported medication use after stroke
  61. Protocol of a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of Recovery-focused Community support to Avoid readmissions and improve Participation after Stroke (ReCAPS)
  62. Developing person-centred goal setting resources with and for people with aphasia: a multi-phase qualitative study
  63. Health Policy and Health Services Delivery in the Era of COVID-19
  64. Age-Related Disparities in the Quality of Stroke Care and Outcomes in Rehabilitation Hospitals: The Australian National Audit
  65. Comparing the EQ-5D-3L anxiety or depression domain to the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale to identify anxiety or depression after stroke
  66. Factors Associated with Stroke Coding Quality: A Comparison of Registry and Administrative Data
  67. Reducing Ethnic and Geographic Inequities to Optimise New Zealand Stroke Care (REGIONS Care): Protocol for a Nationwide Observational Study
  68. Comparing Performance Across In-person and Videoconference-Based Administrations of Common Neuropsychological Measures in Community-Based Survivors of Stroke
  69. The use of videoconferencing in clinical neuropsychology practice: A mixed methods evaluation of neuropsychologists' experiences and views
  70. Letter to the Editor regarding: Critical Considerations for Stroke Management During COVID-19 Pandemic in response to Inglis et al., Heart Lung Circ. 2020;29(9): 1263–1267.
  71. Reducing Ethnic and Geographic Inequities to Optimise New Zealand Stroke Care (REGIONS Care): Protocol for a Nationwide Observational Study (Preprint)
  72. Pilot randomised clinical trial of an eHealth, self-management support intervention (iVERVE) for stroke: feasibility assessment in survivors 12–24 months post-event
  73. Process evaluation of an implementation trial to improve the triage, treatment and transfer of stroke patients in emergency departments (T3 trial): a qualitative study
  74. Feedback of patient-reported outcomes to healthcare professionals for comparing health service performance: a scoping review
  75. Real world implementation of a group-based memory rehabilitation program into stroke services: A knowledge translation evaluation
  76. Changes in the prevalence of chronic disability in China: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
  77. Assuming one dose per day yields a similar estimate of medication adherence in patients with stroke: An exploratory analysis using linked registry data
  78. Acute Hospital Admission for Stroke Is Characterised by Inactivity
  79. Improving economic evaluations in stroke: A report from the ESO Health Economics Working Group
  80. Establishment of an internationally agreed minimum data set for acute telestroke
  81. Comparing face-to-face and videoconference completion of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in community-based survivors of stroke
  82. What is known about the cost-effectiveness of neuropsychological interventions for individuals with acquired brain injury? A scoping review
  83. Nurses’ Role in Implementing and Sustaining Acute Telemedicine: A Mixed‐Methods, Pre‐Post Design Using an Extended Technology Acceptance Model
  84. Constraint-induced or multi-modal personalized aphasia rehabilitation (COMPARE): A randomized controlled trial for stroke-related chronic aphasia
  85. Effectiveness of a manualised group training intervention for memory dysfunction following stroke: a series of single case studies
  86. Chest infection within 30 days of acute stroke, associated factors, survival and the benefits of stroke unit care: Analysis using linked data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry
  87. Outcomes for Patients With In-Hospital Stroke: A Multicenter Study From the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR)
  88. Changes in acute hospital costs after employing clinical facilitators to improve stroke care in Victoria, Australia
  89. The International comparison of Systems of care and patient outcomes In minor Stroke and Tia (InSIST) study: A community-based cohort study
  90. Vital sign monitoring following stroke associated with 90-day independence: A secondary analysis of the QASC cluster randomized trial
  91. Is length of time in a stroke unit associated with better outcomes for patients with stroke in Australia? An observational study
  92. Stroke survivor follow-up in a national registry: Lessons learnt from respondents who completed telephone interviews
  93. Statistical analysis plan (SAP) for the Very Early Rehabilitation in Speech (VERSE) after stroke trial: an international 3-arm clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of early, intensive, prescribed, direct aphasia therapy
  94. Sustainable implementation of innovative, technology-based health care practices: A qualitative case study from stroke telemedicine
  95. Understanding the potential for yoga and tai chi interventions to moderate risk factors for stroke – a scoping review
  96. A mixed-methods study to explore opinions of research translation held by researchers working in a Centre of Research Excellence in Australia
  97. Factors influencing self-reported anxiety or depression following stroke or TIA using linked registry and hospital data
  98. Feasibility and effectiveness of computerised cognitive training for memory dysfunction following stroke: A series of single case studies
  99. Risk factors for the development of chest infections in acute stroke: a systematic review
  100. Development of an electronic health message system to support recovery after stroke: Inspiring Virtual Enabled Resources following Vascular Events (iVERVE)
  101. Stroke care in Africa: A systematic review of the literature
  102. Systematic review of clinical practice guidelines to identify recommendations for rehabilitation after stroke and other acquired brain injuries
  103. How to do health services research in stroke: A focus on performance measurement and quality improvement
  104. Influence of stroke coordinators on delivery of acute stroke care and hospital outcomes: An observational study
  105. Transitioning from a single-site pilot project to a state-wide regional telehealth service: The experience from the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine programme
  106. Improving quality and outcomes of stroke care in hospitals: Protocol and statistical analysis plan for the Stroke123 implementation study
  107. Global stroke statistics: An update of mortality data from countries using a broad code of “cerebrovascular diseases”
  108. Improving discharge care: the potential of a new organisational intervention to improve discharge after hospitalisation for acute stroke, a controlled before–after pilot study
  109. Benefits of clinical facilitators on improving stroke care in acute hospitals: a new programme for Australia
  110. Effectiveness of a shared team approach between nurses and doctors for improved risk factor management in survivors of stroke: a cluster randomized controlled trial
  111. The potential health and economic impact of improving stroke care standards for Australia
  112. Testing a systematic approach to identify and prioritise barriers to successful implementation of a complex healthcare intervention
  113. Global stroke epidemiology
  114. Identifying the barriers and enablers for a triage, treatment, and transfer clinical intervention to manage acute stroke patients in the emergency department: a systematic review using the theoretical domains framework (TDF)
  115. Nurse-Led Intervention to Improve Knowledge of Medications in Survivors of Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
  116. Exploring the benefits of a stroke telemedicine programme: An organisational and societal perspective
  117. Triage, treatment and transfer of patients with stroke in emergency department trial (the T3 Trial): a cluster randomised trial protocol
  118. Better outcomes for hospitalized patients with TIA when in stroke units: An observational studyAuthor Response
  119. Addressing the challenges of cross-jurisdictional data linkage between a national clinical quality registry and government-held health data
  120. Telemedicine expedites access to optimal acute stroke care
  121. Application of the World Stroke Organization health system indicators and performance in Australia, Singapore, and the USA
  122. Lifetime direct costs of stroke for indigenous patients adjusted for comorbidities
  123. Improved in-hospital outcomes and care for patients in stroke research
  124. Maximizing Patient Recruitment and Retention in a Secondary Stroke Prevention Clinical Trial: Lessons Learned from the STAND FIRM Study
  125. A randomized controlled trial of very early rehabilitation in speech after stroke
  126. Better outcomes for hospitalized patients with TIA when in stroke units
  127. How is the sustainability of chronic disease health programmes empirically measured in hospital and related healthcare services?—a scoping review
  128. From QASC to QASCIP: successful Australian translational scale-up and spread of a proven intervention in acute stroke using a prospective pre-test/post-test study design
  129. Improving stroke knowledge through a ‘volunteer-led’ community education program in Australia
  130. Is health-related quality of life between 90 and 180 days following stroke associated with long-term unmet needs?
  131. Do cognitive, language, or physical impairments affect participation in a trial of self-management programs for stroke?
  132. National stroke registries for monitoring and improving the quality of hospital care: A systematic review
  133. Personalized medicine and stroke prevention: where are we?
  134. Use of continuous intrathecal baclofen in hereditary spastic paraplegia
  135. Education-only versus a multifaceted intervention for improving assessment of rehabilitation needs after stroke; a cluster randomised trial
  136. Inequities in access to rehabilitation: exploring how acute stroke unit clinicians decide who to refer to rehabilitation
  137. Telemedicine in the acute health setting: A disruptive innovation for specialists (an example from stroke)
  138. Victorian Stroke Telemedicine Project: implementation of a new model of translational stroke care for Australia
  139. Is telemedicine helping or hindering the delivery of stroke thrombolysis in rural areas? A qualitative analysis
  140. Readmissions after stroke: linked data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry and hospital databases
  141. The health and economic benefits of reducing intimate partner violence: an Australian example
  142. The relationship between caregiver impacts and the unmet needs of survivors of stroke
  143. Potential cost-savings may be considerable with management of hypertension according to updated US hypertension guidelines, but for women aged 35–44 years these benefits are unlikely
  144. Rehabilitation Assessments for Patients With Stroke in Australian Hospitals Do Not Always Reflect the Patients' Rehabilitation Requirements
  145. New Strategy to Reduce the Global Burden of Stroke
  146. Statistical analysis plan (SAP) for Shared Team Approach between Nurses and Doctors For Improved Risk Factor Management (STANDFIRM): a randomised controlled trial
  147. Barriers and Enablers to Implementing Clinical Treatment Protocols for Fever, Hyperglycaemia, and Swallowing Dysfunction in the Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC) Project-A Mixed Methods Study
  148. Reply from Lynch et al . to letter from Vedpathak and Shah regarding ‘when should physical rehabilitation commence after stroke: A systematic review’
  149. Is nonadmission-based care for TIA patients cost-effective?
  150. Comparison of two methods for assessing diabetes risk in a pharmacy setting in Australia
  151. Long-Term Costs of Stroke Using 10-Year Longitudinal Data From the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study
  152. Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Rehabilitation After Intracerebral Hemorrhage Stroke
  153. Understanding Long-Term Unmet Needs in Australian Survivors of Stroke
  154. Experience with scaling up the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine programme
  155. Implementation of evidence-based stroke care: enablers, barriers, and the role of facilitators
  156. Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Does Abnormal Circadian Blood Pressure Pattern Really Matter in Patients With Transient Ischemic Attack or Minor Stroke?”
  157. Evidence-to-practice gaps in post-stroke management: a focus on care in a stroke unit and anticoagulation to prevent death, disability and recurrent stroke
  158. Effect of Telestroke on Emergent Stroke Care and Stroke Outcomes
  159. Pathways to enhancing the quality of stroke care through national data monitoring systems for hospitals
  160. When should physical rehabilitation commence after stroke: a systematic review
  161. Does Abnormal Circadian Blood Pressure Pattern Really Matter in Patients With Transient Ischemic Attack or Minor Stroke?
  162. Interdisciplinary Team Interactions in Stroke Units: Can Team Dynamics Influence Patient Outcomes from a Clinician’s Perspective
  163. Estimating the annual number of strokes and the issue of imperfect data: an example from Australia
  164. Global stroke statistics
  165. Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC): Process Evaluation of an Intervention to Improve the Management of Fever, Hyperglycemia, and Swallowing Dysfunction following Acute Stroke
  166. Are Patients with Intracerebral Haemorrhage Disadvantaged in Hospitals?
  167. Pathways to enhancing the quality of stroke care through national data monitoring systems for hospitals
  168. Management of Fever, Hyperglycemia, and Swallowing Dysfunction following Hospital Admission for Acute Stroke in New South Wales, Australia
  169. Establishment of an Effective Acute Stroke Telemedicine Program for Australia: Protocol for the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine Project
  170. Australian Public's Awareness of Stroke Warning Signs Improves After National Multimedia Campaigns
  171. Evaluation of Rural Stroke Services: Does Implementation of Coordinators and Pathways Improve Care in Rural Hospitals?
  172. Telephone follow-up was more expensive but more efficient than postal in a national stroke registry
  173. Outcomes for people with atrial fibrillation in an Australian national audit of stroke care
  174. Factors Associated With 28-Day Hospital Readmission After Stroke in Australia
  175. The Know Your Numbers (KYN) Program 2008 to 2010: Impact on Knowledge and Health Promotion Behavior among Participants
  176. The Prevalence, Impact and Economic Implications of Atrial Fibrillation in Stroke: What Progress Has Been Made?
  177. Risk Factor Management in Survivors of Stroke: A Double-Blind, Cluster-Randomized, Controlled Trial
  178. Is There Evidence That Performance Measurement in Stroke Has Influenced Health Policy and Changes to Health Systems?
  179. A plea for the use of systematic review methodology when writing guidelines and timely publication of guidelines
  180. Stroke survivor and carer perspectives of the concept of recovery: a qualitative study
  181. The economics of atrial fibrillation: a time for review and prioritization
  182. The Economic Gains of Achieving Reduced Alcohol Consumption Targets for Australia
  183. Organization of Care
  184. Adherence to Clinical Guidelines Improves Patient Outcomes in Australian Audit of Stroke Rehabilitation Practice
  185. Organized Blood Pressure Control Programs to Prevent Stroke in Australia
  186. Hospital Management and Outcomes of Stroke in Indigenous Australians: Evidence from the 2009 Acute Care National Stroke Audit
  187. Implementation of evidence-based treatment protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia, and swallowing dysfunction in acute stroke (QASC): a cluster randomised controlled trial
  188. The societal benefits of reducing six behavioural risk factors: an economic modelling study from Australia
  189. Excess Risk of Stroke in Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations
  190. A Phase II Multicentered, Single-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Stroke Self-Management Program
  191. Metropolitan-rural divide for stroke outcomes: do stroke units make a difference?
  192. Economic Benefits of Achieving Realistic Smoking Cessation Targets in Australia
  193. The economic benefits of reducing physical inactivity: an Australian example
  194. Feasibility of a Pilot Programme to Increase Awareness of Blood Pressure as an Important Risk Factor for Stroke in Australia
  195. Death, dependency and health status 90 days following hospital admission for acute stroke in NSW
  196. Identification of a reliable subset of process indicators for clinical audit in stroke care: an example from Australia
  197. Protocol and Pilot Data for Establishing the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry
  198. National Stroke Audit: The Australian experience
  199. Absolute risk representation in cardiovascular disease prevention: comprehension and preferences of health care consumers and general practitioners involved in a focus group study
  200. The health loss from ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage: evidence from the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS)
  201. DALYs and Public Health Programs for Stroke: Australian Perspectives
  202. Hypertension and TIA
  203. The implementation of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in acute ischaemic stroke - a scientific position statement from the National Stroke Foundation and the Stroke Society of Australasia
  204. Systematic Review of Process Indicators: Including Early Rehabilitation Interventions Used to Measure Quality of Acute Stroke Care
  205. ‘Getting your Life Back on Track after Stroke’: A Phase II Multi-Centered, Single-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Stroke Self-Management Program Vs. the Stanford Chronic Condition Self-Management Program or Standard Care ...
  206. Fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing dysfunction management in acute stroke: A cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge transfer
  207. Estimating the Long-Term Costs Of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke for Australia
  208. Telestroke in Stroke Survivors
  209. Improvements in the quality of care and health outcomes with new stroke care units following implementation of a clinician-led, health system redesign programme in New South Wales, Australia
  210. Stroke Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
  211. Psychological Distress and Social Support in Informal Caregivers of Stroke Survivors
  212. Editorial
  213. Estimating the Prevalence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Community-Based, Long-Term Stroke Survivors Using a Validated Predictive Model
  214. Why invest in a national public health program for stroke?
  215. Managing a stroke unit: an example from Australia with an emphasis on nursing roles
  216. Economic Evaluation of Australian Stroke Services
  217. Access to stroke care units in Australian public hospitals: facts and temporal progress
  218. Development and application of Model of Resource Utilization, Costs, and Outcomes for Stroke (MORUCOS): An Australian economic model for stroke
  219. Sleep disordered breathing in chronic stroke survivors. A study of the long term follow-up of the SCOPES cohort using home based polysomnography
  220. Multicenter Comparison of Processes of Care Between Stroke Units and Conventional Care Wards in Australia
  221. How should stroke services be organised?
  222. How should stroke services be organised?