Percentage of patients who had documented aphasia and/or dysarthria and/or dysphagia at admission, that stayed at least 1 day and who were examined by and/or received treatment from a speech therapist within 2 days after admission.

Number of patients who were examined by and/or received treatment from a speech therapist ≤2 days after admission.

Number of patients with documented aphasia and/or dysarthria and/or dysphagia at admission and a minimum stay of ≥1 day.

Patients who are comatose at admission and patients with transient ischaemic attack are excluded from the denominator.

German Stroke Registry Study Group (ADSR) - a voluntary network of 9 regional stroke registers monitoring quality of acute stroke care across 736 hospitals in Germany, with some mandatory reporting.

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The Working Group of German-speaking Stroke Registers (ADSR). Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutschsprachiger Schlaganfall-Register. Accessed August 3, 2023. Available from: www.schlaganfallregister.org.

Link to supplement with the detail extracted: www.ahajournals.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1161%2FSTROKEAHA.120.029968&file=STRSTROKE-2020-029968supp2.pdf - Link to manuscript: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.029968. Methods paper: 10.1161/01.STR.0000241086.92084.c0 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutschsprachiger Schlaganfall-Register: www.schlaganfallregister.org, The Working Group of German-speaking Stroke Registers (ADSR) can be found in about us page