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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2014 Nov 6;45(12):3589–3596. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007362

Table 2.

Complete investigation rates across the contributing studies. The heterogeneity among studies was assessed by Chi-square test.

Study Number of Cases Complete Cardiac Investigation Complete Vascular Investigation Complete Cardiac and Vascular Investigation
1 684 40.9% 20.2% 4.8%
2 578 89.6% 75.3% 70.4%
3 840 71.8% 39.4% 30.1%
4 1,072 79.5% 98.5% 78.7%
5 331 98.8% 97.9% 96.7%
6 876 94.5% 79.3% 75.9%
7 598 58.2% 35.8% 21.9%
8 675 80.0% 79.4% 64.3%
9 1,088 64.0% 97.6% 61.7%
10 626 45.7% 13.9% 5.9%
11 642 81.2% 50.9% 43.3%
12 891 87.8% 68.2% 62.3%
13 470 57.7% 20.9% 13.0%
14 555 73.9% 42.9% 34.8%
15 643 95.2% 32.7% 30.6%
16 407 51.4% 40.8% 29.0%
17 1,085 78.6% 47.3% 37.4%
18 686 83.4% 92.7% 80.2%
19 554 58.3% 31.0% 19.0%
20 685 74.9% 92.3% 69.5%
21 524 93.9% 85.7% 80.5%
22 957 55.3% 31.2% 16.7%
23 1,487 85.3% 33.8% 29.1%

p<0.001 p<0.001 p<0.001

Europe 9,360 68.8% 54.7% 39.7%
USA 7,594 81.6% 60.6% 53.1%

p<0.001 p<0.001 p<0.001