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Provides health system planners with a repository of resources including stroke best practice guidelines and standards of care.
This resource supports the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care in the acute care setting (Rec. #4.1) and inpatient rehabilitation (Rec. #5.2). It provides guidance for the establishment of new stroke units and the enhancement of existing stroke units to provide optimal services and processes of care for stroke patients.
This final report builds a case for promoting rehabilitation best practices broadly and outlines the potential positive economic impacts for the health care system.
The content in this document has been developed through collaborative efforts between the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (“Ministry”), Health Quality Ontario (HQO), and the HQO Episode of Care for Stroke Expert Advisory Panel (“Expert Panel”).
This two-page document provides an overview of the rationale, challenges and opportunities for change that support the best practice recommendation that all patients admitted to hospital with stroke or TIA should be cared for on a stroke unit. It is geared to health care professionals and administrators.
The content in this document has been developed through collaborative efforts between the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (“Ministry”), Health Quality Ontario (HQO), and the HQO Episode of Care for Stroke Expert Advisory Panel (“Expert Panel”).
As organizations across the province have been striving to achieve the Quality-Based Procedures recommendations for stroke rehabilitation intensity (RI), the Rehabilitation Intensity Provincial Integrated Working Group (PIWG) developed a toolkit to support the implementation of these recommendations. The Final Report provides a summary of the group’s accomplishments of deliverables identified in the 2015-2016 work plan. Limitations and future considerations with respect to this work are also discussed. For more information, please click on the below links:
OSN Provincial Integrated Work Plan: Rehabilitation Intensity – Final Report