Fortnightly Review: So stroke units save lives: where do we go from here?
- 12 November 1994
- Vol. 309 (6964), 1273-1277
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.309.6964.1273
Abstract
#### Summary points Stroke is common, killing around 65 000 people each year in the United Kingdom and disabling even more.1 The only certain means of reducing this burden till now has been primary and secondary prevention, in which several interventions are effective.*RF 2-6* Therefore, the results of a recently published statistical overview7 are important because, for the first time, they provide an additional means of reducing this burden. All the randomised controlled trials comparing the outcome of patients with stroke cared for in a specialist stroke unit with the outcome of those cared for in general medical wards were examined and showed that patients managed in stroke units were less likely to die. Doctors are, however, …Keywords
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