title: Acute stroke initiative involving an acute care team.
abstract: The Acute Care Team Educational Initiative (ACTEI) was developed as a quality improvement initiative for the recognition and initial management of time-sensitive medical conditions. For our first time-sensitive disease process, we focused on acute stroke [acute stroke initiative (ASI)]. As part of the larger ACTEI, the ASI included creating an ACT that responds to all suspected emergency department stroke patients. In this article, we describe the planning, process, and development of the ACTEI/ASI as well as how we created an acute response team for the diagnosis and management of suspected acute stroke.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Services Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. Roths@ccf.org
authors.forename: Sean M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: Gabrielle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Keyser
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Winfield
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McNeil
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Simko
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moffa
authors.forename: Muhammad Shazam
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: W Frank
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Peacock
authors.forename: Irene L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Katzan
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors