Included: all patients who were admitted to hospital are included apart from patients whose first ward they were admitted to was Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) / Coronary Care Unit (CCU) / High Dependency Unit (HDU), patients who received a thrombectomy or patients who were referred for a thrombectomy.
Excluded: patients who were first admitted to an ITU/CCU/HDU ward, patients who received a thrombectomy or patients who were referred for a thrombectomy are excluded from this indicator
Numerator = the number of patients who were admitted to a stroke unit within and including 4 hours of clock start.
Denominator = all the patients in the cohort (excluding the patients who were admitted to ITU/CCU/HDU, patients who received a thrombectomy or patients who were referred for a thrombectomy).
To calculate whether a patient is included in the numerator:
- Firstly, identify the number of patients where “Stroke Unit” is the first ward the patient was admitted to at the first hospital (Q 1.14) and who did not receive a thrombectomy (Q2.11 is “No”).
- Then identify the number of these patients:
- newly arriving at hospital where the difference between the date and time of arrival (Q 1.13) and the date and time the patient first arrived on the stroke unit (Q 1.15) is less than or equal to 240 minutes
- already in hospital where the difference between the date and time of symptom onset (Q 1.11) and the date and time the patient first arrived on the stroke unit (Q 1.15) is less than or equal to 240 minutes.
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For team centred |
For patient centred |
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All patients in the team-centred 72h cohort except those who went to ITU/CCU/HDU, received a thrombectomy or referred for a thrombectomy |
All patients in the patient-centred 72h cohort except those who went to ITU/CCU/HDU, received a thrombectomy or referred for a thrombectomy |