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

Background: 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.

Aim: 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.

Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.

Stroke-heart syndrome: Incidence and clinical outcomes of cardiac complications following intracerebral haemorrhage.

Introduction: Newly diagnosed cardiovascular complications following an ischaemic stroke, termed stroke-heart syndrome, are common and associated with worse outcomes. Little is known regarding stroke-heart syndrome in relation to intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH). This study aimed to investigate the incidence and 5-year major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE; acute myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, all-cause mortality and recurrent ICH) of newly diagnosed cardiovascular complications following incident ICH, using a global federated database.