A systematic review of ambulance service-based randomised controlled trials in stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Treatment for stroke is time-dependent, and ambulance services play a vital role in the early recognition, assessment and transportation of stroke patients. Innovations which begin in ambulance services to expedite delivery of treatments for stroke are developing. However, research delivery in ambulance services is novel, developing and not fully understood.

Aims

To synthesise literature encompassing ambulance service-based randomised controlled interventions for acute stroke with consideration to the characteristics of the type of intervention, consent modality, time intervals and issues unique to research delivery in ambulance services. Online searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, CENTRAL and WHO IRCTP databases and hand searches identified 15 eligible st

SUBMITTER: Dixon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10641071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature