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Appendix Two:  International Stroke Guideline Initiatives *

* Notes:
This table includes a list of currently existing stroke guidelines identified through members of the World Stroke Organization, environmental scans, and through extensive searches of published research literature and the internet.  It is not an exhaustive list.  If additional stroke guidelines are known to exist, please send the relevant information to the Chair of the WSO stroke guidelines sub-committee and they will ne added to future updates of this handbook.

The guidelines listed in Appendix Two have not been systematically evaluated by the WSO for accuracy, comprehensiveness, or the process applied by individual groups for guideline development. The inclusion of any guideline in this Handbook does not imply endorsement or approval by the World Stroke Organization.  Similarly,  the omission of any existing guideline does not reflect the quality of the guideline, but rather a lack of awareness of its existence.

Name of Guideline
(Publication reference if available)

Organization/ Group Who Developed Guideline

Country

Date of Most recent update

Stroke Care across the Continuum  (Pre-hospital,  Acute care, Rehabilitation, Prevention)

Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care (2008 Update).
Available: CMAJ 2008; 179: E1- E93
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Canadian Stroke Strategy

Canada

December 2008

Chilean Stroke Guidelines

Cerebrovascular Diseases Group

Chile

2008

Stroke Guideline

Chinese Neurological Society

China

2007

Guideline of cerebrovascular diseases treatment

Institute of Medicine in Shanghai

China

2008-11

Guideline for Stroke Management

Chinese Stroke Association

China

2008

China Guideline for Cerebrovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment

Neurology Commission Branch of CMA

China

February 2008

Demarin V, Lovren I, Huzjan A, et al. Recommendations for stroke management (2006 update).
Available: Acta Clin Croat 2006; 45:219- 285

Croatian Society for Neurovascular Disorders

Croatia

2006

Guidelines for Management of Ischaemic Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack
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European Stroke Organization

Europe

2008

Aivoinfarkti (Stroke)

Task Force nominated by the Finnish Neurological Association together with the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim

Finland

December 2006

Kaypa hoito (Current Care)

National Stroke Group

Finland

2006

Guidelines Stroke 2007

Pokja Stroke Perdossi (Stroke Task Force Indonesian Neurological Association)

Yogyakarta Indonesia

2007

Spread Stroke Prevention Italian Guidelines
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SPREAD Italy

Italy

2007

Nacionaini vodi za lije enjeakutnog mo danog udara

Neurological Sosiety of Serbia & Montenegro

Montenegro

2004

Life after stroke: New Zealand guideline for managment of stroke
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Stroke Foundation of New Zealand

New Zealand

2003

New Zealand TIA Guideline

New Zealand Guideline Group

New Zealand

2008

Guidelines for Stroke Management

Stroke Society of the Philippines

Philippines

2006

Guideline about stroke and TIA Management in 2008

Romanian Association of Stroke

Romania

2008

Nationella riktlinjer for strokevard
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National Board of Health & Welfare

Sweden

2005

National Stroke Guidelines

National Board of Health & Welfare

Sweden

2006

Inselspital, University of Bern (H. Mattle)

ZAS

Switzerland

2007

Guidelines for stroke prevention

Neurological Society of Thailand

Thailand

2007

National Stroke Guidelines 3rd Edition

Royal College of Physicians

United Kingdom

2008

Stroke Guidelines
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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

United Kingdom

2008

SIGN 64:
Management of patients with stroke: Rehabilitation, prevention, and Management of complications, and discharge planning
Click here

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

United Kingdom

2006

Prehospital (Emergency Medical Services) Stroke Care
(doi: 10.1590/S0004282X2002000400032) Academia Brasileira de Neurologica Brazil 2002
The recognition and emergency Management of suspected stroke and TIA guidelines supplement Royal College of Physicians (RCP) National Pre-Hospital Guidelines Group United Kingdom 2006
Guideline for the Management of acute ishemic stroke American Heart Association United States 2007
Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Hemorrhage in Adults American Heart Association United States 2007

Guidelines for the Management of Transient Ischemic Attack

American Heart Association United States 1994

Acute & Rehabilitation Components

Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Rehabilitation & Recovery
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National Stroke Foundation

Australia

2005

Best Practice Guideline for Stroke Care
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Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada

Canada

2003

Nursing best practice guideline:
Stroke assessment across the continuum of care
Click here

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)

Canada

2005

Nova Scotia Guidelines for Stroke Care

Cardiovascular Health Nova Scotia

Canada

2008

Acute stroke care pocket guide

Stroke Group of Helsinki University Hospital

Finland

2008

Japanese Guidelines for the Management of Stroke
Available: Int J Stroke; 2008: 3: 55-62

The Joint Committee (Japan Stroke Society, and other four stroke-related Japanese societies)

Japan

2004

Up-to-date principles of diagnostics and Management of patients with acute disorders of cerebral perfusion

Ukrainian Anti-Stroke Association

Ukraine

2007

Acute Stroke Care

Clinical Guidelines for Acute Stroke Management
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National Stroke Foundation

Australia

2007

Guias de Practica Clinica para la prevencion del accidente cerebrovascular isquemico y el ataque isquemico transitorio
Available: Revista Neurologica Argentina 2006; 31: 74-9

Sociedad Neurologica Argentina

Argentina

2006

Primeiro Consenso Brasileira

Sociedade Brasileira de Doencas Cerebrovasculares

Brazil

 

Clinical Practice Guidelines for hemorrhagic stroke

Neurological Society of Thailand

Thailand

2004

Guideline Stroke

Pokja Stroke Perdossi (Stroke Task Force Indonesian Neurological Association)

Indonesia

2008

SIGN 108
Management of patients with stroke or TIA
Click here

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

United Kingdom

2008

Stroke assessment: booklet for patients Available:
Click here

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

United Kingdom

2008

SIGN 78:
Management of patients with stroke: Identification and Management of dysphagia
Click here

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

United Kingdom

2004

Stroke in Childhood: Clinical guidelines for diagnosis, Management and rehabilitation
Click here

Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Paediatric Stroke Working Group

United Kingdom

2004

Stroke Guidelines

Society Against Stroke in Ukraine (SASU)

Ukraine

2007

Guidelines for the Early Management of Adults with Ischemic Stroke.
Available: Stroke 2007; 38: 1655- 1711.

American Heart Association

United States

2007

Guidelines for the Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH)

American Heart Association

United States

2009

Guidelines for the management of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in adults: 2007 update
Available: Stroke 2007; 38: 2001- 2023

American Heart Association

United States

2007

Management of stroke in infants and children: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from a special writing group of the stroke council.
Available: Stroke 2008; 39: 2644-91

American Heart Association

United States

2008

Stroke Rehabilitation

Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
http://www.strokefoundation.com.au/post-acute-health-professional

National Stroke Foundation

Australia

2005

Stroke Care Optimization of Rehabiltiation through Evidence (SCORE)
Available here.

SCORE Research Group

Canada

2007

Ottawa Panel Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Post-stroke Rehabilitation
Available: Top Stroke Rehabil 2006; 13(2): 1-269

Ottawa Panel Research Group

Canada

2006

EBRSR: evidence-based review of stroke rehabilitation. 11th ed. London (ON): EBRSR; 2008. Available: www.EBRSR.com/ 

EBRSR Research Group

Canada

2008

Clinical Practice Guidelines for hemorrhagic stroke

Neurological Society of Thailand

Thailand

2004

Management of Adult Stroke Rehabilitation Care: A Clinical Practice Guideline.
Available: Stroke 2005; 36: e100- e143

American Heart Association

United States

2005

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of stroke rehabilitation. www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/STR/str_cpg/frameset.htm  

Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense

United States

2003

Stroke Prevention (Secondary)

Neuroprotective agents in stroke: nacional opinión. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2005; 63: 889- 91

Doencas Cerebrovasculares

Brazil

2005

Management of carotid disease in acute phase of stroke: nacional opinión. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2005; 63(3A): 709- 12

Sociedade Brasileira de Doencas Cerebrovasculares

Brazil

2005

Guidelines for the prevention of stroke in patients with ischemic stroke or TIA.
Available: Stroke 2006; 37: 577- 617

American Heart Association

United States

2006

Stroke Prevention (Primary)

Primary prevention of ischemic stroke. A guideline from the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association Stroke Council. Stroke 2006; 37: 1583- 1633

American Heart Association

United States

2006

 

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