Table 2 Aggregate panellist responses (Likert Scale category) for each proposition, N = 11
Percentage Responses | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Proposition Number (from original list in Table 1) | 1 very strongly disapprove | 2 quite strongly disapprove | 3 disapprove | 4 neutral | 5 Approve | 6 quite strongly approve | 7 very strongly approve |
2. Any local provider delivers IAT on a formal rota | 55 | 18 | 27 | ||||
4. Transfer to nearest primary coronary percutaneous intervention unit and shared care with stroke physicians | 18 | 18 | 37 | 18 | 9 | ||
5. Ambulance bypass for all acute stroke patients of known time onset to comprehensive stroke unit where advanced imaging and “expert intra-arterial thrombectomy [IAT]” are available 24/7 | 9 | 55 | 18 | 18 | |||
6. Local CT and transfer all patients with NIHSS ≥10 to the nearest neuroscience centre for interventional neuroradiologist delivered “expert thrombectomy” ** | 9 | 27 | 27 | 27 | |||
7. Local CT/CTA then transfer all large artery occlusive stroke patients to nearest neuroscience centre for interventional neuroradiologist delivered “expert thrombectomy” ** | 27 | 37 | 27 | ||||
8. Local advanced imaging then selective transfer to nearest neuroscience centre for “expert thrombectomy” | 18 | 18 | 18 | 37 | 9 | ||
9. Local CT/CTA then transfer large artery occlusive stroke patients to nearest neuroscience centre for advanced imaging and “expert thrombectomy” | 18 | 18 | 46 | 18 | |||
10. Advanced imaging performed locally but interpreted centrally by Neuroradiology then selective transfer to nearest neuroscience centre for “expert thrombectomy” | 9 | 27 | 9 | 46 | 9 | ||
11. Selective transfer to nearest on call neuroscience centre for “expert thrombectomy” | 36 | 46 | 18 | ||||