Making decisions in medical care is a difficult task, involving a variety of cognitive processes.
Decision making is defined as the process of examining possibilities, risks, uncertainties …

Physicians often base their decisions to offer acute stroke therapies to patients around the
question of whether the patient will benefit from treatment. This has led to a plethora of …

A stroke can be a catastrophic experience. Patients are confronted with alarming symptoms
and then a devastating diagnosis, after which they are expected to make an “informed …

Objective Rapid decision-making during acute stroke care can improve outcomes. We
wished to assess whether crucial information to facilitate decisions is routinely collected by …

Few clinical situations in medical practice are as time-sensitive and and have such profound
ramifications as selection of patients with acute stroke for mechanical thrombectomy (MT) …

Objective: We hypothesized that low rates of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) use are only
partially explained by medical considerations, and that biases, beliefs, systems, and …

Background—National guidelines endorse recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (r-
tPA) in eligible patients with acute ischemic stroke to improve patients' functional recovery …

Broadly speaking, the process of medical decision-making involves a series of cognitive
steps. These include outlining the goal and desired outcome, comprehending the problem at …

Shortening the interval between hospital arrival and thrombolytic treatment is critical to
improve the efficacy of the treatment because of its time-sensitive effect. 1 Decision-making …

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and long-term disability in the United States.
Though advances in interventions have improved patient survival after stroke …