The Hamilton General Hospital is a regional stroke centre located in Ontario, Canada which services 2.2 million Canadians over 11, 945 km2.  Over the past 5 years, our stroke research program has undergone a rapid increase in clinical research activities across the continuum of stroke care from hyper acute stroke to rehabilitation.  The research team has expanded to include seven research coordinators/nurses with diverse clinical research skillsets.  After this period of rapid expansion we undertook a quality improvement (QI) process to evaluate our performance across key quality indicators.  Through evaluating studies conducted over the past three years, we identified studies that over-achieved in these important measures of quality.  We aimed to identify the underlying factors driving these achievements so that we may integrate these measures into all future studies.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS- EVALUATION OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR STROKE STUDIES CONDUCTED AT A LARGE TEACHING HOSPITAL OVER 3 YEARS