Guidelines
Clinical Guidelines for Stroke and TIA Management: A quick guide for general practice
This quick guide presents the key recommendations for stroke and TIA management for general practitioners taken from the Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010 approved by the NHMRC and endorsed by the RACGP. Recommendations are graded in accordance with NHMRC standards (refer Table 1). The numbers attached to each recommendation relate to the reference number used in the main document.
These discipline specific summaries are an implementation tool designed to raise the awareness of the recommendations specific for that discipline from the full Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management. While the summaries focus on a specific discipline, stroke care is most effective when all members of the team work in an interdisciplinary and coordinated way. Important caveats to the recommendations are included in the preamble to each section in the main document. Readers are referred back to the main document for details regarding these caveats along with the specific research which underpins the recommendations and the designated NHMRC grades of evidence for each recommendation.
The guidelines should not be seen as an inflexible recipe for stroke care; rather, they provide a framework that is based on the best available evidence that can be adapted to local needs, resources and individual circumstances.
Related links
Concise guidelines for General Practice
Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010 (main document)
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