Joe E. Acker
University of Alabama at Birmingham
14 Papers
391 Citations
Joe E. Acker is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stroke & Health care. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 14 publications.
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Recommendations for the establishment of stroke systems of care: recommendations from the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems.
Lee H. Schwamm,Arthur M. Pancioli,Joe E. Acker,Larry B. Goldstein,Richard D. Zorowitz,Timothy J. Shephard,Peter Moyer,Mark W. Gorman,S. Claiborne Johnston,Pamela W. Duncan,Phil Gorelick,Jeffery Frank,Steven K. Stranne,Renee Smith,William Federspiel,Katie Horton,Ellen Magnis,Robert J. Adams +17 more
TL;DR: The ASA convened a multidisciplinary group, the Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems, to describe the current fragmentation of stroke care, to define the key components of a stroke system, and to recommend methods for encouraging the implementation of stroke systems.
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Recommendations for the establishment of stroke systems of care: Recommendations from the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems
Lee H. Schwamm,Arthur M. Pancioli,Joe E. Acker,Larry B. Goldstein,Richard D. Zorowitz,Timothy J. Shephard,Peter Moyer,Mark W. Gorman,S. Claiborne Johnston,Pamela W. Duncan,Phil Gorelick,Jeffery Frank,Steven K. Stranne,Renee Smith,William Federspiel,Katie Horton,Ellen Magnis,Robert J. Adams +17 more
TL;DR: The ASA convened a multidisciplinary group, the Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems, to describe the current fragmentation of stroke care, to define the key components of a stroke system, and to recommend methods for encouraging the implementation of stroke systems.
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Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care Recommendations From the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems Task Force Members
Lee H. Schwamm,Arthur Pancioli,Joe E. Acker,Larry B. Goldstein,Richard D. Zorowitz,Timothy J. Shephard,Peter Moyer,Mark W. Gorman,S. Claiborne Johnston,Pamela W. Duncan,Phil Gorelick,Jeffery Frank,Steven K. Stranne,Renee Smith,William Federspiel,Katie B. Horton,Ellen Magnis,Robert J. Adams +17 more
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Recommendations for improving the quality of care through stroke centers and systems: an examination of stroke center identification options: multidisciplinary consensus recommendations from the Advisory Working Group on Stroke Center Identification Options of the American Stroke Association.
Robert J. Adams,Joe E. Acker,Mark J. Alberts,Liz Andrews,Richard P. Atkinson,Kathy Fenelon,Anthony J. Furlan,Meighan Girgus,Katie B. Horton,Richard L. Hughes,Walter J. Koroshetz,Richard E. Latchaw,Ellen Magnis,Marc R. Mayberg,Arthur M. Pancioli,Rose Marie Robertson,Tim Shephard,Renee Smith,Sidney C. Smith,Suzanne Smith,Steven K. Stranne,Edgar J. Kenton,Gil Bashe,Altagracia Chavez,Larry B. Goldstein,Richard Hodosh,Cindy Keitel,Margaret Kelly-Hayes,Anne Leonard,Lewis B. Morgenstern,Jack Owen Wood +30 more
TL;DR: Ten programs were evaluated, including Peer Review Organizations, trauma centers, and new efforts by the National Committee on Quality Assurance and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to identify providers and disease management programs.
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Translating evidence into practice: a decade of efforts by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association to reduce death and disability due to stroke: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
Lee H. Schwamm,Pierre B. Fayad,Joe E. Acker,Pamela W. Duncan,Gregg C. Fonarow,Meighan Girgus,Larry B. Goldstein,Tammy Gregory,Margaret Kelly-Hayes,Ralph L. Sacco,Jeffrey L. Saver,Wendy Segrest,Penelope Solis,Clyde W. Yancy +13 more
TL;DR: The purpose of the present report is to trace the path pursued by the ASA (or the AHA through its support of the ASA) and review its central role as the lead organizer, the convener of experts, the cited source of stroke facts and statistics, and the organization that defined the common language for translating the available stroke evidence into real-world practice.
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