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Primary care interventions and current service innovations in modifying long-term outcomes after stroke: a protocol for a scoping review.

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Pindus, Dominika M 
Rundell, A Viona 
Hobbs, Victoria 
Aziz, Noorazah Abd 

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Interventions delivered by primary and/or community care have the potential to reach the majority of stroke survivors and carers and offer ongoing support. However, an integrative account emerging from the reviews of interventions addressing specific long-term outcomes after stroke is lacking. The aims of the proposed scoping review are to provide an overview of: (1) primary care and community healthcare interventions by generalist healthcare professionals to stroke survivors and/or their informal carers to address long-term outcomes after stroke, (2) the scope and characteristics of interventions which were successful in addressing long-term outcomes, and (3) developments in current clinical practice. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Studies that focused on adult community dwelling stroke survivors and informal carers were included. Academic electronic databases will be searched to identify reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled trials, trials from the past 5 years; reviews of observational studies. Practice exemplars from grey literature will be identified through advanced Google search. Reports, guidelines and other documents of major health organisations, clinical professional bodies, and stroke charities in the UK and internationally will be included. Two reviewers will independently screen titles, abstracts and full texts for inclusion of published literature. One reviewer will screen search results from the grey literature and identify relevant documents for inclusion. Data synthesis will include analysis of the number, type of studies, year and country of publication, a summary of intervention components/service or practice, outcomes addressed, main results (an indicator of effectiveness) and a description of included interventions. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The review will help identify components of care and care pathways for primary care services for stroke. By comparing the results with stroke survivors' and carers' needs identified in the literature, the review will highlight potential gaps in research and practice relevant to long-term care after stroke.

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Keywords

LONG-TERM OUTCOMES, PRIMARY CARE, RCT, SCOPING REVIEW, Caregivers, Community Health Services, Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Long-Term Care, Primary Health Care, Stroke, Survivors, United Kingdom

Journal Title

BMJ Open

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Journal ISSN

2044-6055
2044-6055

Volume Title

6

Publisher

BMJ
Sponsorship
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (via Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)) (PTC-RP-PG-0213-20001)
The work on the protocol is the part of the programme of research ‘Developing primary care services for stroke survivors’ funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)'s Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme (grant reference number PTC-RP-PG-0213-20001).