Grace W K Ho, Jolene Hang Chun Mui, Raymond Wong, Wai Tong Chien, Kwan Ho Wong, Daniel Bressington
Visitor characteristics and changes in mental health stigma after attending the Mind Space mental health experience exhibition
Frontiers in psychiatry
stroke treatments timesensitive thus early correct recognition stroke emergency medical services essential outcomes particularly important adaption mobile stroke units systematic review therefore aimed provide comprehensive overview emergency medical services dispatcher recognition stroke review registered prospero prisma guidelines applied searched pubmed embase cochrane review library screening data extraction performed two observers risk bias assessed using quadas2 instrument 1200 papers screened 24 fulfilled inclusion criteria data sensitivity reported 22 papers varied 179 830 positive predictive values reported 12 papers ranged 240 877 seven papers reported specificity ranged 200 991 six papers reported negative predictive value ranging 280 994 general risk bias low stroke recognition dispatchers varied greatly overall many patients stroke recognised despite initiatives taken improve stroke literacy available data high quality however asian african south american populations underrepresented data heterogenous review serve reference future research emergency medical dispatcher stroke recognition initiatives improve prehospital stroke recognition