Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Structured Stroke Management Improves Outcome at 6 Months
Brief Summary: Background/Aim of the study: To further reduce the 6 months stroke morbidity and mortality in a high volume stroke hospital and to compare the results with national and international data.

Methods: 204 consecutive stroke patients are analyzed in a prospective study in a single center teaching institution. The intervention consists of a structured therapeutic chain of 290 collaborating GPs, a standardised acute hospital proceeding overlapping with an early integrated neurovascular rehabilitation within the same institution. Primary endpoints include death and dependence at 6 months, secondary endpoints are the length of hospital stay (LOS) and the quantitative analysis of physical and psychosocial impairments. The data are directly compared with the same endpoints of the Swiss subgroup of the international stroke trial (IST).


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Usual medicine of five drugs or above
* Speak and understand Danish
* Admitted via the Acute Medicine Admission Ward
* Are able to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients included in a similar study
* Declared terminal
* Suicidal
* In custody
* Isolated at the hospital
* Im- and/or expressive aphasia
* Severe dementia
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 years or older
* Index hospitalization for congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
* Access to telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

* Cognitive impairment
* Resident of a nursing home
* Does not speak English
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* hospitalized on one of seven inpatient treatment teams
* uninsured or low-income publicly insured (Medicaid; Medicare/Medicaid; or Medicare without supplemental insurance and ≤200% poverty level)
* reside in one of three metro-area counties (Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas)

Exclusion Criteria:

* not community dwelling (ie not from a long-term care facility or with plans to discharge to skilled nursing facility)
* no access to a working telephone (participants could list a friend or shelter phone)
* non-English speakding
* HIV positive (HIV+ patients were eligible for overlapping transitional care resources)
* disabling mental illness (as characterized by active psychosis or active suicidal ideation) or severe cognitive deficits
* plans to enter hospice.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* An acute cerebrovascular event (ischemic stroke or intra-cerebral bleeding (ICB)) with the signs and symptoms of an acute stroke according to the World Health Organisation definition of acute stroke14 within the last 12 hours without the need or possibility of a neurosurgical intervention
* No thrombolytic therapy within the first 3 hours (in order to allow the correct comparison with the Swiss cohort of the IST trial
* The informed consent of the patient or, if not possible, of the relatives
* Living at home before the event
* Lack of participation in another trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Thrombolytic therapy within the first 3 hours (in order to allow the correct comparison with the Swiss cohort of the IST trial
* No informed consent of the patient or, if not possible, of the relatives
* Not living at home before the event
* Participation in another trial (26 patients were excluded because of TIA with full recovery within 24 hours after the event)

Answer: D