Are differences in travel time or distance to healthcare for adults in global north countries associated with an impact on health outcomes? A systematic review

C Kelly, C Hulme, T Farragher, G Clarke - BMJ open, 2016 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To investigate whether there is an association between differences in travel
time/travel distance to healthcare services and patients' health outcomes and assimilate the …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency and urgent care systems in Australia, Denmark, England, France, Germany and the Netherlands–Analyzing organization, payment and reforms

N Baier, A Geissler, M Bech, D Bernstein, TE Cowling… - Health Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction Increasing numbers of hospital emergency department (ED) visits pose a
challenge to health systems in many countries. This paper aims to examine emergency and …

Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis …

RM Barber, N Fullman, RJD Sorensen, T Bollyky… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be
approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the …

Association of surgeon volume with outcomes and cost savings following thyroidectomy: a national forecast

Z Al-Qurayshi, R Robins, A Hauch… - … –head & neck …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Incidence of thyroidectomies is continuing to increase. Identifying factors
associated with favorable outcomes can lead to cost savings. Objective To assess the …

Estimated societal costs of stroke in the UK based on a discrete event simulation

A Patel, V Berdunov, Z Quayyum, D King… - Age and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background there are around 100,000 new stroke cases and over a million people living
with its consequences annually in the UK. This has large impacts on health and social care …

Associations between extending access to primary care and emergency department visits: a difference-in-differences analysis

W Whittaker, L Anselmi, SR Kristensen, YS Lau… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Health services across the world increasingly face pressures on the use of
expensive hospital services. Better organisation and delivery of primary care has the …

Perfusion computed tomography to assist decision making for stroke thrombolysis

A Bivard, C Levi, V Krishnamurthy, P McElduff, F Miteff… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The use of perfusion imaging to guide selection of patients for stroke thrombolysis remains
controversial because of lack of supportive phase three clinical trial evidence. We aimed to …

Stroke care in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Douiri, W Muruet, A Bhalla, M James, L Paley… - Stroke, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has
potentially caused indirect harm to patients with other conditions via reduced access to …

Endovascular thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke

P Papanagiotou, G Ntaios - Circulation: Cardiovascular …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Despite several effective strategies of stroke prevention, the stroke epidemic still constitutes
the leading cause of permanent disability. The recent series of well-designed, convincingly …

Impact and sustainability of centralising acute stroke services in English metropolitan areas: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics and stroke national …

S Morris, AIG Ramsay, RJ Boaden, RM Hunter… - bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Objectives To investigate whether further centralisation of acute stroke services in Greater
Manchester in 2015 was associated with changes in outcomes and whether the effects of …