Assessment of Telestroke Capacity in US Hospitals

Jessica V Richard; Andrew D Wilcock; Lee H Schwamm; Lori Uscher-Pines; Kori S Zachrison; Arham Siddiqui; Ateev Mehrotra

doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.1274

Assessment of Telestroke Capacity in US Hospitals

JAMA Neurol. 2020 Aug 1;77(8):1035-1037. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.1274.

Authors

Jessica V Richard¹, Andrew D Wilcock², Lee H Schwamm³, Lori Uscher-Pines⁴, Kori S Zachrison³, Arham Siddiqui⁵, Ateev Mehrotra^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² University of Vermont Medical School, Burlington.
³ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁴ RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
⁵ Texas Tech Health Science Center, Lubbock.
⁶ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study describes the growth of telestroke capacity in US hospitals and compares the characteristics of the hospitals with and without telestroke capacity.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Disease Management
Health Services Research / statistics & numerical data
Hospitals / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Neurology / statistics & numerical data*
Stroke / therapy*
Telemedicine / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Grants and funding

R01 NS111952/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States