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| K LakshminarayanSummaryAffiliation: University of Minnesota Country: USA Publications
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Atrial fibrillation and stroke in the general medicare population: a 10-year perspective (1992 to 2002)Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Department of Neurology, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Stroke 37:1969-74. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: This analysis represents an observational validation of stroke prevention in AF trials. The significant increase in warfarin use among patients with AF illustrates diffusion of trial evidence into clinical practice...
Impact of an electronic medical record-based clinical decision support tool for dysphagia screening on care qualityKamakshi Lakshminarayan
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Stroke 43:3399-401. 2012..Dysphagia screening (DS) before oral intake in patients with acute stroke is a hospital-level performance measure. We report outcomes of an initiative to improve compliance to this quality measure...- Blood pressure management in acute ischemic strokeKamakshi Lakshminarayan
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 9:444-53. 2007..These findings support the need for more research to fill identified gaps in evidence, improve treatment guidelines, and reduce variability in patient management... - Five-year rehospitalization outcomes in a cohort of patients with acute ischemic stroke: Medicare linkage studyKamakshi Lakshminarayan
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300S Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Stroke 42:1556-62. 2011..The purposes of this study were to track mortality and rehospitalizations over 5 years poststroke in a stroke cohort (SC) and compare long-term risks of complications to a matched nonstroke cohort (NSC)... 
Clinical epidemiology of atrial fibrillation and related cerebrovascular events in the United StatesKamakshi Lakshminarayan
Department of Neurology and Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Neurologist 14:143-50. 2008..The aim of this article is to describe the changing epidemiology of AF in the United States and to assess the implications for stroke prevention and treatment...- Utility of dysphagia screening results in predicting poststroke pneumoniaKamakshi Lakshminarayan
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Stroke 41:2849-54. 2010..Dysphagia screening before oral intake (DS) is a stroke care quality indicator. The value of DS is unproven. Quality adherence and outcome data from the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry were examined to establish value of DS... - A cluster-randomized trial to improve stroke care in hospitalsK Lakshminarayan
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Neurology 74:1634-42. 2010..We evaluated the effect of performance feedback on acute ischemic stroke care quality in Minnesota hospitals... - Stroke rates: 1980-2000: the Minnesota Stroke SurveyKamakshi Lakshminarayan
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1070-8. 2009..The improved short-term survival in the face of stable, clinically defined stroke rates may imply treatment advances or ascertainment of less severe strokes, possibly masking a true decline in stroke rates... - Cost-effectiveness analysis of protected carotid artery stent placement versus endarterectomy in high-risk patientsAlberto Maud
Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, and, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
J Endovasc Ther 17:224-9. 2010..To determine the cost-effectiveness of carotid angioplasty with stent placement (CAS) under emboli protection versus carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients with severe carotid stenosis considered to be at high surgical risk for CEA... - Cost-effectiveness analysis of endovascular versus neurosurgical treatment for ruptured intracranial aneurysms in the United StatesAlberto Maud
Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
J Neurosurg 110:880-6. 2009..In this study, the authors' goal was to compare the cost-effectiveness of endovascular and neurosurgical treatments in patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms who were eligible to undergo either type of treatment... - Validation of two different grading schemes to identify patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in general populationM Fareed K Suri
Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
J Neuroimaging 18:142-7. 2008..We present an external validation of two previously developed scoring schemes designed to identify patients with ACAS... - Endovascular interventions following intravenous thrombolysis may improve survival and recovery in patients with acute ischemic stroke: a case-control studyT C Burns
Zeenat Quereshi Stroke Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 29:1918-24. 2008..A retrospective case-control study was designed to address this issue... - Neurology training around the worldJuzar Hooker
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, WC1N 3BG, London, UK
Lancet Neurol 2:572-9. 2003
Research Grants
- Improving Evidence-Based Quality of Care in Acute StrokeKamakshi Lakshminarayan; Fiscal Year: 2007..We anticipate that our pilot study will eventually be scaled to a larger study involving community hospitals. ..