Stroke Training and Awareness Resources (STARs)

Your letter of response (4)

Well done, you knew that the Cochrane Library would provide you with the information to support that statement in your letter.

Now you wish to provide the statistics for admission to your stroke unit.

A reply letter that reads 'Dear Mrs Bloggs, Thank you for your letter concerning your father. We accept that stroke unit care is a national standard and can reassure you that our stroke unit meets current criteria. This standard is based on national clinical practice guidelines.These guidelines are based on the best available clinical evidence summarised in the Cochrane Library. Within our hospital 79% of people are admitted to our stroke unit on their day of admission or the day after.'

Topic Loop:

The Stroke Unit
Royal Hospital
Capital City

Re: Mr Bloggs

Dear Mrs Bloggs,

Thank you for your letter concerning your father. We accept that stroke unit care is a national standard and can reassure you that our stroke unit meets current criteria. This standard is based on national clinical practice guidelines.These guidelines are based on the best available clinical evidence summarised in the Cochrane Library.

Within our hospital 79% of people are admitted to our stroke unit on their day of admission or the day after.

Q. Which of the following would give you the appropriate information to support the highlighted statement in your letter above?

National Standards and Criteria – Wrong

SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) – Wrong

Cochrane Library – Wrong

SSCA (Scottish Stroke Care Audit) – Correct – The SSCA publish the admission rate for each stroke unit in Scotland. See the Clinical audit Topic loop for further information.

MCN (Managed Clinical Network) local action plan – Wrong

Health and safety policy – Wrong

Best practice statement – Wrong

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