Estimated Population Access to Acute Stroke and Telestroke Centers in the US, 2019

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e2145824. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.45824.

Kori S Zachrison^{1

2}, Rebecca E Cash^{1

2}, Opeolu Adeoye³, Krislyn M Boggs¹, Lee H Schwamm^{4

5}, Ateev Mehrotra⁶, Carlos A Camargo Jr^{1

2}

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses US population access to emergency departments with acute stroke capabilities and telestroke capacity in 2019.