Table 1. Organizational model performance for the pre- and in-hospital acute stroke pathway.

	Centralized model	Decentralized model
N	283	801
Pre-hospital phase
Symptom onset to call for help time, valid cases	152 (53.7)	249 (31.1)*
Median (min)	40.5	36.5
First responder
General practitioner (%)	135 (47.7)	456 (56.9)†
911 (%)	84 (29.7)	184 (23.0)†
Transported by EMS (%)	213 (75.3)	462 (57.8)*
High priority transportation by EMS (%)	170 (79.8)	310 (67.1)*
In-hospital phase
In-hospital diagnostic workup, median (min)
Time to neurological examination	0.0	4.0*
Time to neuroimaging examination	8.0	22.0*

EMS indicates emergency medical services.

^*P<0.01.

†P<0.05.