Clinical and Organizational Aspects of Medical Care for Ischemic Stroke

INTRODUCTION: The relevance of the analysis of clinical and organizational aspects of medical care for ischemic stroke (IS) is due to the socio-economic significance of this disease against the background of increasing morbidity and disability of the population. Considering the scientific evidence of the effectiveness of stroke prevention processes and the negative epidemiological dynamics stroke, evaluation and improvement of clinical and organizational management based on evidence is a priority research task. The article presents a literature review of the PubMed, Medline, Springer, eLibrary databases, as well as current Russian scientific manuscripts found using Google Scholar. The relevant information obtained was combined, structured and analyzed for the purpose of analytically assessing the need to improve clinical and organizational processes for ischemic stroke in terms of reducing morbidity, hospital mortality and disability. CONCLUSION: Content analysis indicates unfavorable epidemiological dynamics and a progressive increase of the ischemic stroke morbidity, developing socio-economic tension against the background of patient disability and the spread of acute cerebrovascular accidents among the working population. Negative epidemiological trends of ischemic stroke confirm the ineffectiveness of clinical and organizational management and are the rationale for improving medical care for acute cerebrovascular accidents.