FED: Australian stroke treatment found wanting
A report has found Australian hospitals have been slow to adopt effective new stroke treatments.
Experts writing in the Medical Journal of Australia also found most patients were notgetting to hospital fast enough to benefit from new treatments.
In an editorial in tomorrow's journal, the director of the national Stroke ResearchInstitute, Professor GEOFFREY DONNAN, points to deficiencies in stroke care in Australia.
He says the uptake of proven new treatments and strategies has been poor.
He says progress in setting up specialist stroke care units, which have been shownto improve survival rates and rehabilitation prospects, has been too slow.
Prof DONNAN'S comments accompany the publication in the journal of one of Australia'slargest hospital-based audits of stroke care, based on eight metropolitan teaching hospitalsin five states.
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KEYWORD: STROKE (SYDNEY)
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