Ischaemic stroke (Acute stroke clinical care standard)
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 721349 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 |
Definition: | An ischaemic stroke is a type of acute stroke that occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain suddenly becomes blocked This is as opposed to a bleed from an artery, which is known as a haemorrhagic stroke (AIHW 2013). |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | For the purposes of the Indicator specification: acute stroke clinical care standard (ACSQHC 2019), ischaemic stroke includes patients where Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]} or Episode of care—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]} (only when sequenced as one of the first two additional diagnoses) is one of the following:
It also only includes acute cases, that is, where the Hospital service—care type, code N[N] = 1 Acute care. It specifically excludes transient ischaemic attack. This is where Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]} or Episode of care—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]} (only when sequenced as one of the first two additional diagnoses) is one of the following:
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) 2019. Acute stroke clinical care standard. Sydney: ACSQHC. AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2013. Stroke and its management in Australia: an update. Canberra: AIHW. |
Relational attributes | |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 2a-Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke who were provided thrombolysis, 2019- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 2b- Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke who received endovascular thrombectomy, 2019- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 2d-Time from arrival to hospital to endovascular thrombectomy, 2019- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 5b- Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke on cholesterol lowering medication on separation from hospital, 2019 Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 5c-Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation prescribed oral anticoagulants on separation from hospital, 2019- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 |