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Dr. Barrett: At Kessler Foundation, it’s great that hidden disabilities after stroke
are recognized to have a number of different areas of impact, not only on the individual
and how he or she can be free in their life and function and daily activities but also
how that person experiences recovery in the hospital setting and afterwards in the transition
into the community. Now our medical system, our national medical system, is setting up
indexes to look at quality for medical care and I’m very pleased that the American Academy
of Neurology has nominated me to take part on the steering committee on the National
Quality Forum. This group is putting together a neurology endorsement measurement project
and, therefore, through this project, we’re going to be able to look at some measures
and means of actually assessing and quantifying the quality of care that patients are receiving.
We’re hoping that treatment of hidden disabilities can be integrated into the way that we measure
quality of care. Because it is one of the very central things and one of the most important
things, we think, after stroke and making sure that people get back to their lives.