Economic Evaluation of a Pre-Hospital Protocol for Patients with Suspected Acute Stroke

Economic Evaluation of a Pre-Hospital Protocol for Patients with Suspected Acute Stroke

BackgroundIn regional and rural Australia, patients experiencing ischemic stroke do not have equitable access to an intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Although thrombolysis with tPA is a clinically proven and cost-effective treatment for eligible stroke patients, there are f...

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Main Authors: Suman Lahiry, Christopher Levi, Joosup Kim, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Andrew Searles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
stroke
acute stroke
economic evaluation
pre-hospital protocol
thrombolysis
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00043/full

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