Table 1.
Baseline demographics of patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis in the SPOTRIAS network with an available National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score
| All | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of treated patients | 2514 | 369 | 836 | 75 | 216 | 291 | 135 | 176 | 416 |
| NIHSS score (median, IQR) | 12 (6–18) | 14 (8–19) | 12 (6–17) | 11 (6–16) | 10 (5–16) | 12 (6–19) | 12 (6–19) | 12 (5–18) | 10 (5–16) |
| Age (y) (mean and SD) | 67.6 (15.5) | 68.2 (14.4) | 64.7 (15.4) | 64.1 (16.7) | 67.4 (15.2) | 69.8 (15.2) | 67.5 (16.4) | 68.4 (16.8) | 71.6 (14.9) |
| Women (%) | 1241 (49.5%) | 178 (48.2%) | 407 (48.7%) | 38 (50.7%) | 109 (50.5%) | 141 (48.4%) | 74 (54.8%) | 93 (54.1%) | 201 (48.6%) |
| Race (black) | 480 (19.1%) | 57 (15.4%) | 243 (29.1%) | 26 (34.7%) | 76 (35.2%) | 26 (8.9%) | 20 (14.8%) | 17 (9.7%) | 15 (3.6%) |
| Ethnicity (Hispanic) | 280 (11.1%) | 6 (1.6%) | 121 (14.5%) | 1 (1.3%) | 6 (2.8%) | 49 (16.8%) | 59 (43.7%) | 17 (9.7%) | 21 (5.0%) |
| NIHSS score 0–3 | 256 (10.2%) | 10 (2.7%) | 61 (7.3%) | 7 (9.3%) | 36 (16.7%) | 26 (8.9%) | 12 (8.9%) | 29 (16.5%) | 75 (18.0%) |
| NIHSS score 4–5 | 279 (11.1%) | 36 (9.8%) | 99 (11.8%) | 7 (9.3%) | 25 (11.6%) | 28 (9.6%) | 17 (12.6%) | 17 (9.7%) | 50 (12.0%) |
| NIHSS score ≥6 | 1979 (78.7%) | 323 (87.5%) | 676 (80.9%) | 61 (81.3%) | 155 (71.8%) | 237 (81.4%) | 106 (78.5%) | 130 (73.9%) | 291 (70.0%) |
Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; SD, standard deviation.
Data presented as mean (SD), n (%), or median (25th, 75th percentiles). A through H represents each individual deidentified SPOTRIAS center.