Background In recent years, important progress has been made in effective stroke treatment,
however, patients living in rural and remote areas have nil or very limited access to timely …

Background. Recent studies have reported lower statistics of upper limb (UL) weakness (48-
57%) compared to widely cited values collected over 2 decades ago (70-80%). Objective. To …

Objective: To evaluate the association between the presence of integrated systems of stroke
care and stroke case-fatality across Canada. Methods: We used the Canadian Institute of …

Background and Purpose—Patients with premorbid disability, generally defined as modified
Rankin Scale (mRS) score≥ 2, are often excluded from trials of acute stroke therapies …

Objective To determine contemporary trends in case fatality, discharge destination, and
admission to long-term care after acute ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) …

Background Late functional improvement between 3 and 12 months poststroke occurs in
about one in four patients with ischaemic stroke, more commonly in lacunar strokes. It is …

Objectives To investigate the 10-year trend in healthcare quality of intravenous thrombolysis
(IVT) with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in China …

Background For ischaemic stroke, outcome severity is heavily time dependent. Systems of
care need to be in place to ensure that patients with stroke are treated quickly and …

Background Temporal trends in life‐sustaining care after acute stroke are not well
characterized. We sought to determine contemporary trends by age and sex in the use of life …

Background: Data on intravenous (IV) thrombolysis using tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)
are limited from low-and middle-income countries. We aimed to assess the quality indicators …