Edited by C Wolfe, C McKevitt, A Rudd. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2002, £24.95, pp 160 (paperback). ISBN 1 85775 455 7

Stroke remains a major cause of death and disability throughout the world. In the UK and elsewhere, care for people with stroke has been shown to vary dramatically in relation to how that care is organised and delivered, and what it achieves. The greatest strength of this book is therefore not so much that it identifies variability across Europe, but that it contains eloquent and practical discussion about the difficulties in carrying out such research and …