Variations in rates of discharges to nursing homes after acute hospitalization for stroke and the influence of service heterogeneity : an Anglia Stroke Clinical Network Evaluation Study

Funding: This work was funded by the National Institute For Health Research (NIHR) Research For Patient Benefit Programme, grant number PB-PG-1208-18240. E.A.W. receives funding support from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre award to Cambridge. MT received a PhD studentship funded by the College Of Life Sciences & Medicine, University Aberdeen, grant number CF10109–38. Acknowledgments: We thank the stroke database team and stroke research team staff from all participating sites who contributed to data collection. We also would like to acknowledge the contribution of Anglia Stroke Clinical Network Evaluation Study (ASCNES) Group. ASCNES Group (alphabetical order): Max O Bachmann (UEA); Garry R Barton (UEA); Fiona Cummings (ASHCN); Genevieve Dalton (ASHCN); Diana J Day (ASHCN/AH); Abraham George (JPUH); Rachel Hale (UEA); Anthony Kneale Metcalf (NNUH/UEA); Stanley D Musgrave (UEA); Phyo Kyaw Myint (UoA/UEA); Joseph Ngeh (IPH); Anne Nicholson (WSH); Peter Owusu-Agyei (PH); John F Potter (UEA/NNUH) and Gill M Price (UEA).Peer reviewedPublisher PD