Quality of acute stroke care in Romania: Achievements and gaps between 2017 and 2022.
Acute stroke care
Romania
stroke network
thrombectomy
thrombolysis
Journal
European stroke journal
ISSN: 2396-9881
Titre abrégé: Eur Stroke J
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101688446
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2023
01 2023
Historique:
received:
30
04
2022
accepted:
02
06
2022
entrez:
16
2
2023
pubmed:
17
2
2023
medline:
17
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Romania has one of the highest incidences of stroke and one of the highest mortality rates in Europe. The mortality rate due to treatable causes is also very high and is associated with the lowest public spending on healthcare in the European Union. Nonetheless, significant achievements in acute stroke care have been made in Romania in the last 5 years, most notably the increase of the national thrombolysis rate from 0.8% to 5.4%. Numerous educational workshops and constant communication with the stroke centers led to a solid and active stroke network. Due to the joint efforts of this stroke network and the ESO-EAST project, the quality of stroke care has significantly improved. However, Romania still faces many problems: a major lack of specialists in interventional neuroradiology and consequently a low number of stroke patients treated by thrombectomy and carotid revascularization procedures, a low number of neuro-rehabilitation centers and a country-wide lack of neurologists.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36793744
doi: 10.1177/23969873221108746
pii: 10.1177_23969873221108746
pmc: PMC9923129
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
44-51Informations de copyright
© European Stroke Organisation 2022.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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