Table 1.

Study search strategy with picos mdel

PICOS	definition
P	(‘Stroke’ OR ‘Cerebral Stroke’ OR ‘Vascular Accident, Brain’ OR ‘CVA’ OR ‘Cerebrovascular accident’ OR ‘Cerebrovascular Accident, Acute‘ Cerebrovascular Stroke’ OR ‘Stroke, sub-acute’ OR ‘Stroke, Acute’ OR ‘Stroke, chronic’)
I	(‘Face Arm Speech Test’ OR ‘Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale’ OR ‘stroke car’ OR ’Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen’ OR ’Los Angeles Motor Scale ’OR’ Prehospital Acute Stroke Severity scale ’OR’ The Finnish Prehospital Stroke Scale’ OR’ Recognition of Stroke in the Emergency Room’ OR’ Guangzhou Stroke Scale’ OR’ Rapid Arterial Occlusion Evaluation scale’ OR’ National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale’ OR’ Pediatric National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale’ OR’ European Stroke Scale’ OR ’Canadian Neurologic Scale’ OR ’The Scandinavian Stroke Scale’ OR’ Barthel Index’ OR ’Functional Independence Measure’ OR ’Instrumental Activities of Daily Living’ OR ’Modified Rankin Scale ’OR ’Rankin Focused Assessment’ OR ’Sickness Impact Profile’ OR ’Short Form 36 ’OR ’European Quality of Life Score ’ OR ’Quality of Life after Stroke Scale’ OR ’Stroke Impact Scale’ OR ’Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale’)
C	(‘pre-hospital’ OR ‘emergency’ OR ‘rehabilitation unit’ OR ‘stroke care unit’
O	(diagnose OR ‘impairment’ ‘handicap’ OR ‘disability’ OR ‘quality of life )
S	(‘cohort analysis’ OR ‘intervention study’ OR ‘longitudinal study’ OR ‘cluster analysis’ OR ‘crossover trial’ OR ‘cluster analysis’ OR ‘randomized trial’ OR ‘major clinical study’)/de OR (longitudinal OR cohort OR crossover trial OR cluster analysis OR randomized trial OR clinical trial OR controlled trial)