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Tri-State Stroke Network reminds you that stroke is a medical emergency. Please call 9 1 1 if you or someone you know is exhibiting signs of stroke.

The 5 Warning Signs & Symptoms of Stroke Are: 1) Sudden numbness or weakness in the face or one side of the body; 2) Sudden confusion or difficulty speaking; 3) Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes; 4) Suden trouble walking, dizziness or loss of balance; 5) Sudden severe headache with no known cause
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Section title: Epidemiology & Data

Assesses current knowledge of the stroke burden and potential reasons for the excess stroke deaths in the Tri-State area, identifies critical questions for population-based studies designed to explain the excess stroke deaths, and advocates for the funding and completion of such studies.

Subheading: Charges (in chronological order)

  1. Identify and endorse a process (e.g., appoint Scientific Agenda Task Force) to develop the scientific agenda for future stroke-related sessions of Tri-State cardiovascular health data summits.
  2. Undertake a statistical and qualitative examination of studies and data related to stroke risk factors, incidence, hospitalization, case-fatality, and mortality in the Tri-State area.
  3. Identify critical questions and hypotheses for population-based studies of stroke in the Tri-State area.
  4. Identify persons, ongoing studies, agencies and institutions that are critical to the initiation or completion of authoritative epidemiological studies on stroke in the Tri-State area.
  5. Develop and disseminate a one-pager, white papers and presentations on the excess burden of stroke in the Tri-State area and the need for epidemiological studies related to this excess burden.
  6. Advocate for the initiation or completion of epidemiological studies that seek to identify causes and pathways associated with excess burden of stroke mortality in the Tri-State area.
  7. Develop the epidemiological portion of any plan or proposal from the Tri-State Stroke Network.
  8. Recommend strategies and data systems necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions adopted by the Tri-State Stroke Network.
  9. Recommend to the Awareness and Advocacy Subcommittee needed laws, regulations and policies (or amendments to the aforementioned) necessary to enhance the study and monitoring of stroke risk, morbidity and mortality in the Tri-State area.
This graphic is a timeline corresponding to the items in the list above. The Immediate Goals are number 1 above; Short Term goals are numbers 2, 3 and 4 above; the First Outcome is number 5, and the Longer Term Goals are numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 above.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:00 PM