No Evidence of the “Weekend Effect” in the Northern New South Wales Telestroke Network

No Evidence of the “Weekend Effect” in the Northern New South Wales Telestroke Network

Background: Admission outside normal business hours has been associated with prolonged door-to-treatment times and poorer patient outcomes, the so called “weekend effect. ” This is the first examination of the weekend effect in a telestroke service that uses multi-modal computed tomography.Aims: To...

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Main Authors: Thomas Lillicrap, Alex Pinheiro, Ferdinand Miteff, Pablo Garcia-Bermejo, Shyam Gangadharan, Thomas Wellings, Billy O'Brien, James Evans, Khaled Alanati, Andrew Bivard, Mark Parsons, Christopher Levi, Carlos Garcia-Esperon, Neil Spratt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
telestroke
weekend effect
thrombolysis
thrombectomy
door to needle time
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.00130/full

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