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Table 2 Secondary outcome measures

From: Paramedic Norwegian Acute Stroke Prehospital Project (ParaNASPP) study protocol: a stepped wedge randomised trial of stroke screening using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in the ambulance

Outcome measure

Cohort 1

Suspected stroke

Cohort 2

Final diagnosis of stroke

Prehospital on-scene time

X

X

Onset-to-hospital time

X

X

Onset-to-treatment time

X

X

Interrater agreement between paramedics and admitting stroke physician

X

X

Absolute change in NIHSS from prehospital to; admission, 2 h post admission, 24 h post admission and at discharge

X

X

Number of patients with suspected acute stroke admitted to the stroke unit

X

X

Number of patients with confirmed acute stroke diagnosis

X

 

Door-to-(first) brain imaging time interval

X

 

Number of patients receiving IVT

X

X

Door-to-needle time in patients receiving IVT

X

X

Number of patients with symptomatic post-thrombolysis haemorrhage

X

X

Number of patients receiving EVT

 

X

Door-to-groin-puncture time in patients receiving EVT

 

X

mTICI score

 

X

Door-to-needle time for blood pressure lowering in patients with ICH

 

X

NIHSS at discharge

 

X

NIHSS at 90-day follow-up

 

X

Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at 90-day follow-up

 

X

Identified LVO, anterior and posterior

 

X

ASPECTs

 

X

Infarction volume (MRI/CTP)

 

X

  1. mTICI modified thrombolysis in cerebral infarction [28], ICH intracranial haemorrhage, ASPECTs Alberta Stroke Program Early CT score [29]