Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA)

The aim of the How to Guide below is to support local teams of healthcare professionals make improvements in the reliability of integrated care for the management of individuals who present with a TIA.

• How to Guide TIA Services

It should be read along with:

• Leading the Way to Safety and Quality Improvement
• How to Improve

Further Guidance 

• NICE Commissioning Guide: Commissioning a service for the diagnosis and initial management of transient ischaemic attack and non-disabling stroke. December 2008
• NICE Guidance 068
• Stroke Strategy for England
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries - Stroke and transient ischaemic attack. CKS 2010
• American Heart Association. Guidelines for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack. AHA 2010. 
• National clinical guideline for diagnosis and initial management of acute stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network. Management of patients with stroke or TIA: Assessment, investigation, immediate management and secondary prevention. (SIGN 2009)

Audit

• Royal College of Physicians – National Sentinel Stroke Audit 2010

Evidence

• NHS Evidence - Transient Ischaemic Attacks

TIA Data

Transient Ischaemic Attack (ICD10 code G45)

The NHS Wales Informatics Service Patient Episode Database Wales (PEDW) contains data for Transient Ischaemic Attacks (TIAs). To view the figures you will need to open the Excel documents for the 3 and 4 character tables and scroll down to the G45 code.

• PEDW Data Tables Principal Diagnosis 3 Character Detail
• PEDW Data Tables Principal Diagnosis 4 Character Detail
• Health in Wales Stroke Data Sources

The primary purpose of a minimum dataset is to enable the same health information to be generated, independent of the system that captures it.

• TIA Minimum Dataset