The increasing pressure on medical services, which was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, has demonstrated the need for alternative methods to hospital admission for patient care. In a study presented at ISC 2023 by a group from Barcelona, Spain, NORAHOME, a virtual multimodal stroke remote monitoring hospitalization program, was shown to be a safe strategy compared to routine clinical practice (RCP).
This prospective cohort study compared a group of consecutive patients with a suspected transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke who were evaluated by a neurologist in the emergency department of a tertiary hospital and who completed NORAHOME with a historic control group of patients with a suspected TIA or minor stroke who had completed RCP with conventional hospitalization.