A Systematic Review of Telestroke

References

• . Roger VL, Go AS, Lloyd—Jones DM ; American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2012;125(1):e2–e220
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Brundtland GH. From the World Health Organization. Reducing risks to health, promoting healthy life. JAMA. 2002;288(16):1974
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Lichtman JH, Allen NB, Wang Y, Watanabe E, Jones SB, Goldstein LB. Stroke patient outcomes in US hospitals before the start of the Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center certification program. Stroke. 2009;40(11):3574–3579
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Fonarow GC, Gregory T, Driskill M, . Hospital certification for optimizing cardiovascular disease and stroke quality of care and outcomes. Circulation. 2010;122(23):2459–2469
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group. N Engl J Med. 1995;333(24):1581–1587
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Hacke W, Kaste M, Bluhmki E, ; ECASS Investigators. Thrombolysis with alteplase 3 to 4.5 hours after acute ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med. 2008;359(13):1317–1329
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Donnan GA, Davis SM. Neurologist, internist, or strokologist? Stroke. 2003;34(11):2765
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Goldstein LB, Matchar DB, Hoff—Lindquist J, Samsa GP, Horner RD. VA Stroke Study: neurologist care is associated with increased testing but improved outcomes. Neurology. 2003;61(6):792–796
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Smith MA, Liou JI, Frytak JR, Finch MD. 30-day survival and rehospitalization for stroke patients according to physician specialty. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2006;22(1):21–26
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Levine SR, Gorman M. “Telestroke”: the application of telemedicine for stroke. Stroke. 1999;30(2):464–469
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Wang S, Lee SB, Pardue C, . Remote evaluation of acute ischemic stroke: reliability of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale via telestroke. Stroke. 2003;34(10):e188–e191
   Google Scholar
• . Demaerschalk BM, Bobrow BJ, Raman R, . Stroke team remote evaluation using a digital observation camera in Arizona: the initial Mayo Clinic experience trial. Stroke. 2010;41(6):1251–1258
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Demaerschalk BM, Raman R, Ernstrom K, Meyer BC. Efficacy of telemedicine for stroke: pooled analysis of the Stroke Team Remote Evaluation Using a Digital Observation Camera (STRokE DOC) and STRokE DOC Arizona telestroke trials. Telemed J E Health. 2012;18(3):230–237
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Meyer BC, Raman R, Hemmen T, . Efficacy of site-independent telemedicine in the STRokE DOC trial: a randomised, blinded, prospective study. Lancet Neurol. 2008;7(9):787–795
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Nelson RE, Saltzman GM, Skalabrin EJ, Demaerschalk BM, Majersik JJ. The cost-effectiveness of telestroke in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Neurology. 2011;77(17):1590–1598
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Silva GS, Farrell S, Shandra E, Viswanathan A, Schwamm LH. The status of telestroke in the United States: a survey of currently active stroke telemedicine programs. Stroke. 2012;43(8):2078–2085
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Demaerschalk BM, Miley ML, Kiernan TE, . Stroke telemedicine. Mayo Clin Proc. 2009;84(1):53–64
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Frey JL, Jahnke HK, Goslar PW, Partovi S, Flaster MS. tPA by telephone: extending the benefits of a comprehensive stroke center. Neurology. 2005;64(1):154–156
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Singh R, Ng WH, Lee KE, Wang E, Ng I, Lee WL. Telemedicine in emergency neurological service provision in Singapore: using technology to overcome limitations. Telemed J E Health. 2009;15(6):560–565
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Demaerschalk BM, Vargas JE, Channer DD, . Smartphone teleradiology application is successfully incorporated into a telestroke network environment. Stroke. 2012;43(11):3098–3101
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Schwamm LH, Holloway RG, Amarenco P, ; American Heart Association Stroke Council; Interdisciplinary Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease. A review of the evidence for the use of telemedicine within stroke systems of care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke. 2009;40(7):2616–2634
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Switzer JA, Demaerschalk BM. Overcoming challenges to sustain a telestroke network. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2012;21(7):535–540
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Stewart SF, Switzer JA. Perspectives on telemedicine to improve stroke treatment. Drugs Today (Bare). 2011;47(2):157–167
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• . Switzer JA, Levine SR, Hess DC. Telestroke 10 years later—‘telestroke 2.0’. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2009;28(4):323–330
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Demaerschalk BM. Telestrokologists: treating stroke patients here, there, and everywhere with telemedicine. Semin Neurol. 2010;30(5):477–491
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Johansson T, Wild C. Telemedicine in acute stroke management: systematic review. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2010;26(2):149–155
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Rubin MN, Wellik KE, Channer DD, Demaerschalk BM. Systematic review of teleneurology: methodology. Front Neurol. 2012;3:156
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . LaMonte MP, Xiao Y, Hu PF, . Shortening time to stroke treatment using ambulance telemedicine: TeleBAT J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2004;13(4):148–154
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . LaMonte MP, Cullen J, Gagliano DM, . TeleBAT: mobile telemedicine for the Brain Attack Team. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2000;9(3):128–135
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Ebinger M, Rozanski M, Waldschmidt C, . PHANTOM-S: the prehospital acute neurological therapy and optimization of medical care in stroke patients—study. Int J Stroke. 2012;7(4):348–353
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Liman TG, Winter B, Waldschmidt C, . Telestroke ambulances in prehospital stroke management: concept and pilot feasibility study. Stroke. 2012;43(8):2086–2090
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• . Fanale CV, Demaerschalk BM. Telestroke network business model strategies. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2012;21(7):530–534
   PubMedGoogle Scholar