Quality Improvement in Acute Ischemic Stroke Care in Taiwan: The Breakthrough Collaborative in Stroke

• Fang-I Hsieh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fang-I Hsieh, Jiann-Shing Jeng

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jiann-Shing Jeng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fang-I Hsieh, Jiann-Shing Jeng

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chang-Ming Chern,

  Affiliation Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tsong-Hai Lee,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan

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• Sung-Chun Tang,

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Li-Kai Tsai,

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsun-Hsiang Liao,

  Affiliation Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hang Chang,

  Affiliation Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kenneth A. LaBresh,

  Affiliation RTI International, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Hung-Jung Lin,

  Affiliations Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Hung-Yi Chiou,

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hou-Chang Chiu,

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Li-Ming Lien ,

  * E-mail: limingmd@ms28.hinet.net

  Current address: Department of Neurology, Shin Kong Wu-Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, No 95, Wen Chang Road, Taipei, Taiwan

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• for the BTS-Stroke Investigators

  ¶BTS-Stroke Investigators are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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