Stroke resource utilisation and all-cause mortality in Thailand 2017-2020: A retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Despite an increasing trend in thrombolysis provision, the absolute rate remains low, 4 and is further exacerbated by a shortage of neurology specialists and a low referral rate to rehabilitation services. 5 6 The Thai Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) has established the emergency medical service in 2008 and introduced the stroke fast track system for stroke care. 7 The ‘ship-and-drip’ or ‘drip-and-ship’ and mothership models can be performed in Thailand 8 9 but depend on hospital capacity and context.

also in 63,971 other papers

There is a clear trend of decreasing survival probability during the 4 years following an incident stroke, with the ischaemic group having the highest probability of survival (70.5%; 95% CI: 70.2% to 70.7%) compared with other subtypes ( figure 2A ; unspecified: 60.6%; 95% CI: 60.2% to 61.0%; haemorrhagic: 64.9%; 95% CI: 64.4% to 65.5%).

also in 19,460 other papers