Tools
Use the pull downs below to view various tools to facilitate your daily activities, and keep up to date with current stroke technologies.
This document is the result of an extensive review of national and international evidence-based stroke best practice
recommendations and guidelines. It is provided as a starting point for provinces and territories as they move to
implement stroke strategies and improve stroke care in Canada across the continuum of care.
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View Patient's Guide to Best Practices
Stroke patients with dysphagia more likely to get pneumonia, become malnourished, anxious, depressed, and die.
Learn about TOR-BSST©
Stroke is the number one condition for which people seek in-patient rehabilitation. In an effort to close the gap between research and clinical practice, an evidence-based stroke rehabilitation intervention website has been created.
Web Site: Stroke Engine
Delays and gaps in implementation of knowledge compromise patient outcomes. The major barrier appears to be the overwhelming logistical difficulty of systematizing rapidly evolving knowledge and applying it in a consistent and continuous manner in the busy clinical setting.
Continuing Medical Implementation Inc. strives to make invaluable implementation tools and information sheets available to a broader spectrum of physicians to assist in Bridging the Care Gap.
Web site: Continuing Medical Implementation:
Bridging the Care Gap
The National Stroke Conference, sponsored by the Canadian Stroke Network and Canadian Stroke Consortium, helps improve how doctors do battle against a disease that attacks 50,000 Canadians a year.
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Click the link below to download PDF for further details.
National Stroke Nursing Forum Proceedings
The EBRSR reviews current practices in stroke rehabilitation. The purpose of the EBRSR was to fulfill the 12th recommendation of 'The Stroke Rehabilitation Consensus Panel Report' that supported the continuing review of stroke rehabilitation research with the "purpose of maintaining timely and accurate information on effective stroke rehabilitation, identifying ideas for further research, supporting continuous peer-review and encouraging improved evidence-based practice."
Web site: Evidence-Based
Review of Stroke Rehabilitation
In the last few years new, and sometimes confusing, information has become available about the efficacy of warfarin and aspirin for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation. The purpose of this decision aid is to present patients with up-to-date and easy to understand information about this topic.
Physician's
Manual
Weighing
my own pros and cons: Assessment worksheet
A decision
aid for patients: Group A (3.1 Mb)
A decision
aid for patients: Group B (3.1 Mb)
A decision
aid for patients: Group C (3.1 Mb)
A decision
aid for patients: Group D (3.1 Mb)
Download
the whole package (zip) (13 Mb)
Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and education tools.
After a simple, one time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers to you the specialty site that best fits your profile.
www.medscape.com
Click the PDF to the left to download the SCORE Project.
The NIH Stroke Scale International is an initiative by national and international government entities as well as private and scholastic organizations. These bodies are dedicated to promoting wellness and better patient care in the field of stroke.
Website: NIH Stroke Scale International