Substantial Progress Yet Significant Opportunity for Improvement in Stroke Care in China.
Document Type
Article
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Stroke is a leading cause of death in China. Yet the adherence to guideline-recommended ischemic stroke performance metrics in the past decade has been previously shown to be suboptimal. Since then, several nationwide stroke quality management initiatives have been conducted in China. We sought to determine whether adherence had improved since then.
METHODS: Data were obtained from the 2 phases of China National Stroke Registries, which included 131 hospitals (12 173 patients with acute ischemic stroke) in China National Stroke Registries phase 1 from 2007 to 2008 versus 219 hospitals (19 604 patients) in China National Stroke Registries phase 2 from 2012 to 2013. Multiple regression models were developed to evaluate the difference in adherence to performance measure between the 2 study periods.
RESULTS: The overall quality of care has improved over time, as reflected by the higher composite score of 0.76 in 2012 to 2013 versus 0.63 in 2007 to 2008. Nine of 13 individual performance metrics improved. However, there were no significant improvements in the rates of intravenous thrombolytic therapy and anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation. After multivariate analysis, there remained a significant 1.17-fold (95% confidence interval, 1.14-1.21) increase in the odds of delivering evidence-based performance metrics in the more recent time periods versus older data. The performance metrics with the most significantly increased odds included stroke education, dysphagia screening, smoking cessation, and antithrombotics at discharge.
CONCLUSIONS: Adherence to stroke performance metrics has increased over time, but significant opportunities remain for further improvement. Continuous stroke quality improvement program should be developed as a national priority in China.
Medical Subject Headings
Aged; China; Female; Guideline Adherence; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Quality of Health Care; Registries; Stroke
Publication Date
11-1-2016
Publication Title
Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation
ISSN
1524-4628
Volume
47
Issue
11
First Page
2843
Last Page
2849
PubMed ID
27758941
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.014143
Recommended Citation
Li, Zixiao; Wang, Chunjuan; Zhao, Xingquan; Liu, Liping; Wang, Chunxue; Li, Hao; Shen, Haipeng; Liang, Li; Bettger, Janet; Yang, Qing; Wang, David Z.; Wang, Anxin; Pan, Yuesong; Jiang, Yong; Yang, Xiaomeng; Zhang, Changqing; Fonarow, Gregg C; Schwamm, Lee H; Hu, Bo; Peterson, Eric D; Xian, Ying; Wang, Yilong; and Wang, Yongjun, "Substantial Progress Yet Significant Opportunity for Improvement in Stroke Care in China." (2016). Neurology. 1833.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurology/1833