Ambulance documentation of stroke symptoms during the UK COVID-19 'Stay at Home' message

Emerg Med J. 2021 Jan;38(1):83-84. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2020-210319. Epub 2020 Nov 16.

Authors

Graham McClelland¹, Nina Wilson², Lisa Shaw³, Michael Grayling², Daniel Haworth¹, Christopher I Price⁴

Affiliations

¹ North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
² Biostatistics Research Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
³ Stroke Research Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
⁴ Stroke Research Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK c.i.m.price@ncl.ac.uk.

PMID: 33199271
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2020-210319

No abstract available

Keywords: basic ambulance care; prehospital care; stroke.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Ambulances*
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Documentation*
Female
Humans
Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Male
Patient Admission / statistics & numerical data
Quarantine
SARS-CoV-2
Stroke / epidemiology*
United Kingdom / epidemiology