Lean: increase efficiency in stroke patient care

Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Health Care

Treatment for stable HIV patients in England: can we increase efficiency and improve patient care?

OBJECTIVES To estimate the costs and potential efficiency gains of changing the frequency of clinic appointments and drug dispensing arrangements for stable HIV patients compared to the costs of hospital pharmacy dispensing and home delivery. METHODS We estimated the annual costs per patient (HIV clinic visits and either first-line treatment or a common second-line regimen, with some patients...

Care of the Patient with a Stroke

Although she is a trained nurse, she found herself unprepared for the task of carin? for her husband when he returned home seriously handicapped, and enquiries led her to believe that many other devoted relatives were trying, like her, to cope with 3 herculean task without any help or guidance. She decided to give others the benefi' of her experience by writing a textbook for the patient's fami...

Patient dissatisfaction with acute stroke care.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Riks-Stroke, the Swedish Stroke Register, was used to explore patient characteristics and stroke services as determinants of patient dissatisfaction with acute in-hospital care. METHODS All 79 hospitals in Sweden admitting acute stroke patients participate in Riks-Stroke. During 2001 to 2007, 104,876 patients (87% of survivors) responded to a follow-up questionnaire 3 m...

Perioperative care of a patient with stroke

Strokes and TIAs, with their high cumulative mortality and morbidity rates, are occurring with increasing frequency in western population 14. As such, it is vital for clinicians to provide optimal medical management in the perioperative period for those patients with this common neurological problem. This review aims to highlight the importance of the perioperative period and the stages of pre-...