Table 2 Summarization of the recommendations and next actions for the TOOLS intervention
Enhance provider practices in secondary stroke risk factor management | Address the needs to support providers in secondary stroke risk factor management | Implement advice from providers to enhance secondary stroke risk factor management throughout the continuum of care |
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Educate all types of providers regarding stroke warning signs, stroke risk factors, and stroke risk factor management | Tailor the self-management aspect of the TOOLS intervention to each veteran using self-management concepts | Address secondary stroke prevention prior to discharge - we are providing this through training of all providers |
Teach rehabilitation therapists to include a stroke risk factor management goal for every patient with stroke or TIA | Develop and issue rehabilitation specific information handouts and pamphlets for addressing stroke risk factors | Send pamphlets and information home with each patient - we are addressing this through nursing discharge |
Incorporate (through nursing) secondary stroke risk factor management information and training into the discharge process for every patient with stroke or TIA | Develop and issue a self-management prescription pad for risk factors - this will provide information for clinics, etc | Need to establish a gatekeeper (or champion) at each facility, we feel that this person may be found in rehabilitation due to the relationships that are often built |
| Â | Â | Develop a discharge template |
| Â | Â | Initiate peer to peer programming and facility stroke support groups |