Good is not Good Enough: The Benchmark Stroke Door-to-Needle Time Should be 30 Minutes

Affiliations

• ¹ 1Department of Clinical Neurosciences,University of Calgary,Calgary.
• ² 8Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,British Columbia.
• ³ 10Department of Medicine,University of Toronto.
• ⁴ 5Division of Neurology,Department of Medicine,University of Alberta,Edmonton,Alberta.
• ⁵ 14Stroke Program,Toronto.
• ⁶ 24Department of Neurology,Neurosurgery and Medicine,McGill University.
• ⁷ 25Department of Neurosciences,Quebec.
• ⁸ 18Departments of Medicine,Epidemiology and Community Medicine,University of Ottawa,Ottawa.
• ⁹ 27Faculty of Medicine (Neurology),Dalhousie University,Canada.
• ¹⁰ 9Department of Medicine - Neurology,College of Medicine,University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon,Saskatchewan.
• ¹¹ 21Department of Medicine,Queen's University,London.
• ¹² 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,University of Calgary,Calgary.
• ¹³ 26Department of Neurology,Université de Montréal,Montreal,Quebec.
• ¹⁴ 20Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada,Ottawa.
• ¹⁵ 4Calgary Stroke Program,Foothills Hospital,Calgary.
• ¹⁶ 22Kingston Department of Clinical Neurosciences,Western University,London.
• ¹⁷ 6Faculty of Nursing,University of Alberta,Edmonton,Alberta.
• ¹⁸ 23Division of Neurology,Department of Medicine,McMaster University,Hamilton,Ontario.
• ¹⁹ 16Stroke Research Unit,Toronto.
• ²⁰ 17Division of Neurology,Regional Stroke Program,St. Michael's Hospital,Toronto.
• ²¹ 11Department of Neurology,University of Toronto.
• ²² 13Regional Stroke Program,Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,University of Toronto.