Improving emergency treatment for patients with acute stroke: the PEARS research programme, including the PASTA cluster RCT

Price, Christopher I; White, Phil; Balami, Joyce; Bhattarai, Nawaraj; Coughlan, Diarmuid; Exley, Catherine; Flynn, Darren; Halvorsrud, Kristoffer; Lally, Joanne; McMeekin, Peter; Shaw, Lisa; Snooks, Helen; Vale, Luke; Watkins, Alan; Ford, Gary A

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This research programme showed that paramedic assessment did not increase the proportion of stroke patients receiving thrombolysis, but did result in total lower costs.

Christopher I Price , Phil White , Joyce Balami , Nawaraj Bhattarai , Diarmuid Coughlan , Catherine Exley , Darren Flynn , Kristoffer Halvorsrud , Joanne Lally , Peter McMeekin , Lisa Shaw , Helen Snooks , Luke Vale , Alan Watkins & Gary A Ford .

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Christopher I Price ^1,^*, Phil White ¹, Joyce Balami ², Nawaraj Bhattarai ¹, Diarmuid Coughlan ¹, Catherine Exley ¹, Darren Flynn ³, Kristoffer Halvorsrud ¹, Joanne Lally ¹, Peter McMeekin ⁴, Lisa Shaw ¹, Helen Snooks ⁵, Luke Vale ¹, Alan Watkins ⁵, Gary A Ford ⁶

¹ Stroke Research Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
² Department of Stroke Medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, UK
³ School of Health & Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
⁴ School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁵ Centre for Health Information Research and Evaluation, Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
⁶ Oxford Academic Health Science Network, Oxford University and Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: c.i.m.price@newcastle.ac.uk

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