Complete Stroke Database

The data were extracted from ED records, as well as laboratory analyses and health professional notes taken during the hospital stay of each patient starting from admission to the hospital until discharge. Additionally, clinic records were accessed to determine if patients came for a follow-up visit. Initially, we selected the charts of all patients discharged with a diagnosis of stroke (ischemic and hemorrhagic) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) from the Crouse Hospital ED from September 2015 to January 2021. This provided a starting pool of 4634 records to review. We then focused on a set of 1863 more complete records that included incidents from January 2019 to January 2021. This group was further reduced to those which were associated with home addresses in the six counties surrounding Crouse Hospital (Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, Madison, Cayuga and Cortland). The final group of incidents used for our study numbered 1731.