General Practitioner Coordinated Multidisciplinary Care Improves Long-Term Survival following Stroke with Variation by Impairment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Australian Medicare funded policies to support General Practtitioners (GPs) to coordinate multidisciplinary care (MDC) with other healthcare providers have potential to benefit survivors of stroke/transient ischaemic attack (TIA). However, the effectiveness of these policies is unknown. We aimed to determine the population effect of such policies in improving long-term outcomes following stroke/TIA, by impairment grouping.

Methods

Target trial emulation using observational data within a cohort of community-dwelling adults with stroke/TIA from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (January 2012-December 2016, 42 hospitals). Person-level Medicare, pharmacy, aged care, death, and hospital records were linked. The exposure was ≥1 Medicare GP-MDC claim 6-18 months po

SUBMITTER: Andrew NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12503800 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature