Frontiers | Grace Under Pressure: Resiliency of Quality Monitoring of Stroke Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico City
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death among adults worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020.The first case in Mexico was confirmed on February 28, 2020, subsequently becoming one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. In this paper, we aim to describe changes in the demand for stroke healthcare assistance at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery during the pandemic. For this study, we analyzed data for acute stroke patients registered in the RES-Q platform, during 2019 and 2020. A total of 135 acute ...
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