FAQ
- Audit compliance: Will selecting “not known” for components of NIHSS affect the audit compliance level for my team?
- Case ascertainment: I think my expected number of cases is incorrect, what should I do?
- Datasets: A patient has been transferred to another team within 24 hours of admission. How do I complete sections 1-3?
- Datasets: Definition of a stroke specialist consultant
- Datasets: For an inpatient stroke what should I enter as the first ward of admission? (Question 1.14)
- Datasets: How do I record a change of diagnosis? (Question 1.9)
- Datasets: How should I record a patient who was for palliative care in the first 72 hours but whom then recovers? (Question 3.1)
- Datasets: If a patient is palliative prior to their stroke, should the patient be indicated as for palliative care? (Question 3.1)
- Datasets: If a patient is scanned as an outpatient and an infarct is detected but is not admitted to hospital until a later date (eg 24 hours or 48 hours later) what should be entered for arrival and scanning date/time?
- Datasets: If a patient is screened and not identified as high risk of malnutrition, but are screened again due to their condition deteriorating, and are then identified as at risk of malnutrition, what screening results should be entered onto SSNAP?
- Datasets: If a patient was first assessed by a stroke specialist consultant physician through telemedicine, does this count (Question 3.3)?
- Datasets: If social services have allocated a personalised support budget to a patient can these visits be included in 7.9.2?
- Datasets: Should a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) stroke be included on SSNAP?
- Datasets: Should the modified Rankin Scale score be solely related to disability resulting from stroke or include general level of disability? (Question 7.4)
- Datasets: What do you answer if the patient has been discharged to a care home where they are receiving 24/7 care? (Question 7.9.2)
- Datasets: What happens when a patient is identified as high risk of malnutrition but after a swallow assessment is no longer considered at risk?
- Datasets: What happens when a stroke patient has a brain scan at a hospital and is then immediately transferred to another hospital? (Question 2.4)
- Datasets: What is the most accurate way to reflect the pathway of a stroke patient who initially passed a swallow screen but then goes on to develop problems after 72hrs?
- Datasets: What NIHSS score should I enter for ‘What was the patient’s NIHSS score at 24 hours after thrombolysis?’ if the patient died within 24 hours after receiving thrombolysis? (Question 2.9)
- Datasets: What onset time should be recorded if a patient has a stroke during sleep? (Question 1.11)
- Datasets: What postcode should I enter for overseas patients or those with no fixed abode? (Question 1.7)
- Datasets: What should be entered if there is not an up to date Modified Rankin Scale (MRS) score on discharge available?
- Datasets: What should be recorded as the patient’s NIHSS score on arrival if they are unconscious or comatose? (Question 2.3)
- Datasets: When does the ‘clock’ start for questions regarding the first 72 hours of care?
- Datasets: When is it appropriate to discharge to 'somewhere else'?
- General: Entering, transfering and locking SSNAP records
- General: How should patients with two stroke occurrences within the same day be recorded?
- General: What are the SSNAP Helpdesk details?
- General: What does the SSNAP Clinical Audit cover?
- General: What if a patient suffers a second stroke?