Figure 1.

Selection process of eligible questionnaires. This cross‐sectional study was conducted in Hubei Province, and data were collected from 1 October 2014 to 31 January 2015. A total of 75 hospitals which have department of neurology and have the qualification to perform IV thrombolysis (24/7) were initially invited to join the project. All the neurologists from these hospitals were investigated if they had been in charge of treatment of acute stroke and had been practicing for more than one year. Eventually, 66 (88.0%) hospitals agreed to participate. We surveyed 750 neurologists in the participating hospitals and 693 (92.4%) neurologists responded to our questionnaire investigation. Fifty‐seven were excluded for incomplete data. Finally, 636 eligible questionnaires were included in the data analysis