Study Type
Interventional - Procedure
ongoing
The OSCAIL study is a centrally guided, locally championed pilot study to determine the feasibility of implementing key elements of organized stroke care in hospitals in low resource settings.
Primary endpoint:
To increase the proportion of patients who receive 3 or more key stroke care interventions (KSI) by at least 10%.
Secondary endpoint:
To determine whether the implementation of stroke care pathways leads to:
- A decreased proportion of patients with an m-RS of greater than 3 at discharge; and
- A decreased proportion of patients experiencing secondary complications.
Research collaborators on OSCAIL include:
- Martin Kaddumukasa (Uganda)
- Lynn Katsoulis (South Africa)
- Megha Khanna; Jeyaraj Pandian (India)
- Gerard Urimubenshi (Rwanda)
Study Design
Multi-centre, pre-post educational intervention
NO. of Countries
4
NO. of Sites
8
NO. of Participants
1120
Study Period
2017 - TBD
Sponsor
PHRI
Jackie Bosch
Scientist
Jackie Bosch
Scientist
Jackie Bosch started working with Salim Yusuf in 1993, before PHRI was formally created, as she was completing her Masters in Clinical Epidemiology, with the intent to learn how to do clinical trials so she could run trials in post-stroke rehabilitation. Most recently, she has been a co-investigator on large trials in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, as well as understanding the causes of functional decline as well as developing simple, internationally applicable interventions to improve post-stroke disability.
She is Assistant Dean of the Occupational Therapy program, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, McMaster University, and has received awards such as the (McMaster) President’s Award for Outstanding Service, and the PHRI Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Collaborations. She has more than 65 peer-reviewed publications.
