Centralising acute stroke care within clinical practice in the Netherlands: lower bounds of the causal impact.
Roel D FreriksJochen O MierauErik BuskensElena PizzoGert-Jan LuijckxDurk-Jouke van der ZeeMaarten M H LahrPublished in: BMC health services research (2020)
In this study we showed that a centralised system for acute stroke care appeared both cost-saving and yielded better health outcomes. The results are highly relevant for policy makers, as this is the first study to address the issues of selection and unobserved heterogeneity in the evaluation of centralising acute stroke care, hence presenting causal estimates for budget decisions.