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Table 1 Quality of care indicators included in the dashboard

From: Performance feedback on the quality of care in hospitals performing thrombectomy for ischemic stroke (PERFEQTOS): protocol of a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial

Quality indicators

Type

Definition

Center volume

Structure

The total number of patients treated with EVT in each individual hospital

Number of transferred patients

Structure

Whether patient transferred from another hospital to an EVT hospital

Door-to-needle time

Process

Time from arrival at the emergency department of EVT hospital to IVT initiation

Door-to-groin time

Process

Time from arrival at the emergency department of EVT hospital to groin puncture

eTICI

Outcome

Thrombolysis in cerebral infarction scale to assess intracranial reperfusion, ranging from 0 (no reperfusion) to 3 (full reperfusion)

NIHSS at 24 h

Outcome

The neurological deficit ranged between 0 (normal function) and 42 (completely impaired)

mRS at 3 months

Outcome

Functional outcome score of mRS evaluated 3 months after EVT treatment ranged between 0 (no symptom) and 6 (death)

  1. eTICI extended thrombolysis in cerebral infarction, NIHSS National Institute of Health Stroke Scale, mRS modified Rankin Scale, EVT endovascular thrombectomy, IVT intravenous thrombolytics