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Blacks Are Less Likely to Present With Strokes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observations From the Buckle of the Stroke Belt.
Observational study in Stroke, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Ethnic Contrasts in Stroke Risk Factors and the Atrial Fibrillation Paradox in the United Kingdom: Population-Based Study and Meta-Analysis.Neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Global burden of the COVID-19 associated patient-related delay in emergency healthcare: a panel of systematic review and meta-analyses.Globalization and health · 2022Pooled it
- Changes in Stroke Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Stroke · 2021Pooled it
- Changes in Healthcare Utilization Patterns and Outcomes for an Acute Cerebrovascular Events Medicare Cohort: 2018-2022.Neuroepidemiology · 2026Article
- National Trends in Stroke Presentation, Treatments, and Outcomes During the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2025Article
- Advances in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Short-Term Outcomes of Acute Stroke During COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity in the United States: The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology Multicenter Collaboration.Stroke (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Workflow Delays in Stroke Reperfusion Therapy: A Comparison between the Year-Long Pre-COVID-19 Period and the with-COVID-19 Period.Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2022Article
- Acute telestroke evaluations during the COVID-19 pandemic.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Innovating Care in Multiple Sclerosis: Feasibility of Synchronous Internet-Based Teleconsultation for Longitudinal Clinical Monitoring.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- On "Percentage of Black Population and Primary Care Shortage Areas Associated with Higher COVID-19 Case and Death Rates in Georgia Counties".Southern medical journal · 2021Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Acute Stroke Care, Time Metrics, Outcomes, and Racial Disparities in a Southeast Michigan Health System.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2021Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cerebrovascular disease.Seminars in vascular surgery · 2021Review
- Neurologic Emergencies during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.Neurologic clinics · 2021Review
- Inequities in neurology amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2021Review
- Understanding and Informing Community Emergency Cardiovascular Disease Preparedness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stroke Ready.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2021Article
- Review
- Decrease in Stroke Diagnoses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where Did All Our Stroke Patients Go?JMIR aging · 2020Article
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Abstract
background and purposeThe impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on stroke systems has not been systematically evaluated. Our study aims to investigate trends in telestroke consults during the pandemic.
methodsWe did retrospective chart review of consecutive patients seen through a telestroke network in South Carolina from March 2019 to April 2020. We dichotomized patients to preCOVID-19 pandemic (March 2019 to February 2020) and during COVID-19 pandemic (March to April 2020).
resultsA total of 5852 patients were evaluated during the study period, 613 (10.5%) were seen during the pandemic. The median number of weekly consults dropped from 112 to 77 during the pandemic,
conclusionsThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant drop in telestroke volume. The impact seems to disproportionately affect Black patients.
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