Friday, 30th August Smart Strokes Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

• National Targets and Stroke Unit Accreditation: How to navigate the void - Tanya Frost

• Taking action at the point of care: addressing healthcare professional wellbeing  - Fiona Herco

Fiona Herco

Click here to view the Organisational Assessment of Conditions to Foster Workplace Well-being document.

• Characterising Hospital Admissions Prior to Stroke Death - Jennie Carson
• Involvement in a large International Acute Stroke Rehabilitation Clinical Trial (AVERT DOSE) - A local post COVID perspective. - Natasha Gillman
• Improving Pyrexia, Hyperglycaemia and Swallow Screening Protocols in an Acute Stroke Unit   - Jessica Wood
• Eligibility for thrombolysis in Acute Ischaemic Stroke – a Queensland multicentre review - Haylee Berrill
• Reproducibility of binary questions about patient activities of driving, shopping, banking (DSB) as a rapid alternative to the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) for stroke treatment decisions. - Tanya Frost

• Impact of device and programme features on the efficacy of upper-limb robotic rehabilitation following stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Kate Charlesworth
• Stroke rehabilitation clinicians’ perspectives of device and programme requirements for effective upper-limb robotic rehabilitation following stroke. - Kate Charlesworth
• A glimpse into advanced technology in stroke rehabilitation - Louise Pearce
• Development of a comprehensive patient management platform for inpatient stroke care, including generation of Australian Stroke Clinical Registry data reports - Dearne Stewart
• Codesigning “EmpowerMe” a website to enhance self-efficacy after stroke. - Katie Nesbitt
• Co-creation of a website with stroke survivors to improve self-efficacy after stroke: a methodological approach. - Katie Nesbitt

Smart Strokes Best Research Abstract: Tamina Levy

Smart Strokes New Presenter: Thoshenthri Kandasamy

Stroke Foundation Quality Improvement: Rebekah Pickering

Excellence in Co-design: Simone Russell

ASNEN Best Nursing Abstract: Kelly Coughlan

Aphasia Association Award: Kristine Shrubsole

• Codesigning the ‘Adherence Counselling Toolkit’ (ACT now) to promote recovery after stroke: knowledge, attitudes and needs of stroke survivors, carers, and health professionals regarding exercise adherence. - Tamina Levy
• Evaluating Criteria and Indicators of Centres of Clinical Excellence in Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation at Australian and International Centres - Thoshenthri Kandasamy
• Feasibility of a Virtual Secondary Prevention and Self-Management Group Program delivered to Regional, Rural and Remote Stroke Survivors. - Rebekah Pickering and Jenelle Preece
• Centering Lived Experience at the Heart of Stroke 2023 Conference - Simone Russell and Adrian O'Malley
• Factors influencing sustained use of Fever, Hyperglycaemia (Sugar) and Swallow (FeSS) Protocols for stroke: findings from a qualitative study of real-world implementation. - Kelly Coughlan
• Does an Implementation Toolkit Improve Aphasia Care? Preliminary Results of a Pilot Study. - Kirstine Shrubsole