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Table 7 Comparison of mean differences in raw and matched data

From: Centralising acute stroke care within clinical practice in the Netherlands: lower bounds of the causal impact

 

Raw

Matched

Age in years

-0.1978049a

-0.0796457

Male

0.1285413a

0.0057671

IVT received

-0.2216757b

-0.058478

sNIHSS on arrival

0.1092078

0.0387365

Mode of referral

0.2681143a

0.0242103

Transported by EMS (%)

0.3942428b

0.025803

  1. IVT Intravenous Thrombolysis, sNIHSS short National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, EMS Emergency Medical Services, km kilometer. Inference: a/b indicate significant differences at the 5%/1% level based on the mean differences of the two systems