Centralising acute stroke care within clinical practice in the Netherlands: lower bounds of the causal impact

Abstract Background Authors in previous studies demonstrated that centralising acute stroke care is associated with an increased chance of timely Intra-Venous Thrombolysis (IVT) and lower costs compared to care at community hospitals. In this study we estimated the lower bound of the causal impact o...

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Main Authors: Roel D. Freriks, Jochen O. Mierau, Erik Buskens, Elena Pizzo, Gert-Jan Luijckx, Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Maarten M. H. Lahr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-4959-3