Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

With this research we want to see what impact the transfer of patients has for their care. Are patients being transferred to receive more advanced stroke therapies? Are they being transferred for stroke rehabiliatation? Are they being transferred for medical issues that are unrelated to their strokes? Those are only some questions that are of interest. We then want to analyze if patients have benefitted from transfer compared to patients who were not transferred. We also want to know if all patients (irrespectible of gender, age, ethnicity, living status and other medical issues) have the same chance of getting transferred. With all of these information we will be able to say which patients benefit the most and where money for transfer arrangement might be well spent. This will give us a better image on how our current access to appropriate stroke treatment works and if we should adjust our managment in light of new treatment options (catheter treatment for acute stroke).