Integrated care management for patients following acute stroke: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Contemporary stroke care is moving towards more holistic and patient-centred integrated approaches, however, there is need to develop high quality evidence for interventions that benefit patients as part of this approach. This study aims to identify the types of integrated care management strategies that exist for people with stroke, to determine whether stroke management pathways impact patient outcomes and to identify elements of integrated stroke care that were effective at improving outcomes. The study is a systematic review with meta-analysis. The review was conducted using Medline, CINAHL, Web of Science and the Cochrane Database of randomized controlled trials from January 2012 to January 2024. Studies that evaluated interventions as part of integrated care against a control or stan

SUBMITTER: Eustace I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12341757 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature