External quality monitoring facilitates improvement in already well-performing stroke units: insights from RES-Q Poland.
Michal Adam KarlinskiAdam KobayashiMaciej NiewadaWaldemar FryzeAgata TomczakWaldemar BrolaKonrad RejdakPiotr LuchowskiBożena AdamkiewiczMałgorzata WiszniewskaUrszula WłodarczykRadosław KaźmierskiPawel KramHalina Bartosik-PsujekRafał KaczorowskiPiotr SobolewskiMałgorzata FudalaAgata GałązkaMarcin RogoziewiczAnna RogoziewiczHalina Sienkiewicz-JaroszEwelina CybulskaNatalia PożarowszczykJacek StaszewskiAleksander DębiecEwa Horoch-ŁyszczarekAlicja MączkowiakAnna CzlonkowskaPublished in: Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska (2023)
Quality-oriented projects facilitate the improvement of stroke care, even in centres demonstrating good baseline performance. Polish stroke units that consistently reported cases to the RES-Q demonstrated improvement in terms of door-to- -needle time and dysphagia screening. However, there is still a need to shorten the time to dysphagia screening, and carefully monitor stroke unit mortality following the COVID-19 pandemic.