New stroke programme to launch this fall in China
China will be launching a new hospital-based stroke programme to improve outcomes for stroke patients in the world’s most populous country
A new quality improvement hospital programme will give researchers and doctors essential tools to monitor and provide better evidence-based stroke care in China. Scheduled to launch this fall, the programme is fashioned after the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke project, which helps hospitals improve stroke care and patient outcomes.
“It is with great excitement that we announce the launch of this collaborative stroke quality improvement project between the Chinese Stroke Association and the American Stroke Association to further enhance cooperation on clinical research, education and the impact of acute stroke science,” Jizong Zhao, president of the Chinese Stroke Association, said in a news release.
The new programme, funded by Dublin-based Medtronic, will propel current government initiatives to collect reliable data on stroke patients, including characteristics, diagnostic testing, treatment, adherence to performance measures and outcomes in stroke patients in China, while allowing hospitals to receive feedback on their performance. Researchers and public health advocates can then use this data to develop better stroke quality intervention programmes. “Without quality data we cannot monitor what happens in the country, we cannot monitor patterns of care and identify barriers in stroke care,” said Xian Ying, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology and medicine at the Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina, who is working on the new programme, in a news release.
According to a 2016 study of more than 30,000 stroke patients in China, researchers found that Chinese doctors were still not consistently following treatment guidelines despite some improvement in stroke care quality over time.
This story was originally published in the Global Health and Travel issue of October 2017
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