Thrombolytic Imaging-to-Needle Time as a Metric for Comparing Telemedicine versus In-Person Evaluation in Acute Ischemic Stroke
ITN represents a more accurate metric for comparing telemedicine and in-person evaluations than DTN, as it excludes stroke-specific processes of care and patient-specific factors that are intrinsic to DTN and unrelated to the modality of evaluation.
Authors
- Faddi Ghassan Saleh Vélez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2626-6259)
- John A. Grimaldi
- Alejandro Hornik
- Andrea Loggini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5479-9442)
- Jonatan Hornik
- Julie Wesler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-7419)
- Karam Dallow
- Jessie Henson
- Amber Schwertnam
Institutions
- Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (US)
- Austral University (AR)
- Southern Illinois Healthcare (US)
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (US)
- Villanova University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Neurologist
- Published
- 2025-03-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/nrl.0000000000000618
- Primary Topic
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00