BACKGROUND: Rapid care protocols developed to reduce in-hospital delay times in the
assessment of acute stroke patients are now common in Emergency Departments. Correct …

Objectives An ideal triage system used in the emergency department (ED) should identify
patients who need urgent medical care. The purpose of this study was to validate the Taiwan …

Background and Purpose—We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to
improve triage, treatment, and transfer for patients with acute stroke admitted to the …

Background and purpose: Rapid thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke caused by large
vessel occlusion leads to improved outcome. Optimizing intrahospital management might …

Objectives: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a widely used scale for
managing acute ischemic stroke but may be too complicated for health care providers not …

Background and Purpose: The Stockholm Stroke Triage System, implemented in 2017,
identifies patients with high likelihood of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke. A previous …

Background Timely administration of healthcare in acute stroke, congruent with national
stroke metrics, relates to better patient outcomes. A nurse-led stroke triage team instituted at …

Objective: The objective of this review was to synthesize the best available evidence on the
effectiveness of the Manchester Triage System (MTS) on time to treatment (TtT) for patients …

Background and Purpose: A simple, easily adoptable scale with good performance
characteristics is needed for EMS providers to appropriately triage suspected stroke patients …

Background Internationally recognised evidence-based guidelines recommend appropriate
triage of patients with stroke in emergency departments (EDs), administration of tissue …