Journal article
Influence of guidelines in endovascular therapy decision making in acute ischemic stroke insights from UNMASK EVT
N Kashani, JM Ospel, BK Menon, G Saposnik, M Almekhlafi, PN Sylaja, BCV Campbell, JH Heo, PJ Mitchell, M Cherian, F Turjman, B Kim, U Fischer, AT Wilson, B Baxter, A Rabinstein, S Yoshimura, MD Hill, M Goyal
Stroke | Published : 2019
Abstract
Background and Purpose-The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association guidelines for earlymanagement of patients with ischemic stroke offer guidance to physicians involved in acute stroke care and clarify endovasculartreatment indications. The purpose of this study was to assess concordance of physicians' endovascular treatment decisionmaking with current American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association stroke treatment guidelines using asurvey-approach and to explore how decision-making in the absence of guideline recommendations is approached.Methods-In an international cross-sectional survey (UNMASK-EVT), physicians were randomly assigned 10 of 22case sce..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was funded by Stryker Inc through an unrestricted research grant to the University of Calgary. The company was not involved in the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation or reporting of the results.