Stroke team remote evaluation using a digital observation camera in Arizona: the initial mayo clinic experience trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Telemedicine techniques can be used to address the rural-metropolitan disparity in acute stroke care. The Stroke Team Remote Evaluation Using a Digital Observation Camera (STRokE DOC) trial reported more accurate decision making for telemedicine consultations compared with telephone-only and that the California-based research network facilitated a high rate of thrombolysis use, improved data collection, low risk of complications, low technical complications, and favorable assessment times. The main objective of the STRokE DOC Arizona TIME (The Initial Mayo Clinic Experience) trial was to determine the feasibility of establishing, de novo, a single-hub, multirural spoke hospital telestroke research network across a large geographical area in Arizona by replica

SUBMITTER: Demaerschalk BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2876204 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature