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Reader response: Effects of increasing IV tPA-treated stroke mimic rates at CT-based centers on clinical outcomes

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Burton et al.1 found that thrombolysis at 2 hub centers that mostly used MRI before thrombolysis had lower stroke mimic rates than CT-based thrombolysis at spoke hospitals. They discussed that… Click to show full abstract

Burton et al.1 found that thrombolysis at 2 hub centers that mostly used MRI before thrombolysis had lower stroke mimic rates than CT-based thrombolysis at spoke hospitals. They discussed that it is unclear “whether this [finding] can be attributed to the initial clinical evaluation (emergency medicine clinician vs vascular neurologist) or imaging modality,” since the spoke hospital treatments were guided by phone consultations from hub-based vascular neurologists.1

Keywords: effects increasing; mimic rates; response effects; stroke mimic; rates based; reader response

Journal Title: Neurology
Year Published: 2018

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