'The way that we are collecting and using data has evolved' evaluating the Australian National Stroke Audit programme to inform strategic direction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Stroke Audit has been used to audit and provide feedback to health professionals and stroke care services in Australia since 2007. The Australian Stroke Clinical Registry was piloted in 2009 and numbers of hospitals participating in the registry are increasing. Considering the changing data landscape in Australia, we designed this study to evaluate the stroke audit and to inform strategic direction.

Methods

We conducted a rapid review of published literature to map features of successful data programmes, followed by a mixed-methods study, comprising national surveys and interviews with clinicians and administrators about the stroke audit. We analysed quantitative data descriptively and analysed open-ended survey responses and interview data using qual

SUBMITTER: Lynch E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9884858 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature