Quality Improvement in Stroke Prevention (QUISP)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Is a secondary prevention intervention, focused on implementation of standardized pre-printed discharge orders for hospitalists, effective at increasing utilization of the following evidence-based treatments 6 months after discharge for ischemic stroke:

1. Treatment with statins,

2. Control of hypertension, and

3. Anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Collaborator: Kaiser Permanente

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Ischemic stroke Kaiser-Permanente Health Plan Member with Pharmacy Benefit Discharged alive to home

Exclusion Criteria:

tpA patients Hemorrhagic stroke TIA Significant comorbidities