Trends in Telestroke Care Delivery: A 15-Year Experience of an Academic Hub and Its Network of Spokes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telestroke provides access to vascular neurology expertise for hospitals lacking stroke coverage, and its use has risen rapidly in the past decade. We aim to characterize consultations, spoke behavior, and the relationship between spoke telestroke utilization (number of telestroke consults per year) and spoke alteplase treatment metrics in an academic telestroke network.

Methods and results

We analyzed prospectively collected data on all telestroke consults from 2003 to 2018. Trends in network performance and spoke characteristics were analyzed using generalized estimating equations and Kendall τβ nonparametric tests as appropriate. Unadjusted and adjusted linear regression models determined associations between telestroke utilization and treatment metrics. The ne

SUBMITTER: Sharma R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7374496 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature