Intervention to Enable Stroke Survivors in Los Angeles County Hospitals to "Stay Within the Guidelines"

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

The purpose of this study is to test a newly developed outpatient care intervention called SUSTAIN (Systematic Use of Stroke Averting Interventions) for improving delivery of stroke preventive services at Los Angeles County hospitals and to measure the costs of running such an intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00861081

Run by

University of California, Los Angeles

People needed

410

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-06

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients of LAC+USC, Rancho Los Amigos, Olive View-UCLA, or Harbor-UCLA
• Patients who have had an acute transient ischemic attack (TIA) or ischemic stroke or carotid procedure within the last six months
• English or Spanish speaking
• At least 40 years of age
• Capable of giving informed consent (no proxies will be used to obtain consent)
• Blood pressure not optimally controlled (>120/80, at least 72 hours post-stroke)

You may not qualify if…

• Age 39 years or younger
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Patients with severe global disability which would preclude him/her from participating in group clinics
• Patients with advanced dementia

Where it is running

• Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center — Downey, California, United States
• UCLA — Los Angeles, California, United States
• LAC+USC Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center — Sylmar, California, United States
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center — Torrance, California, United States

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