Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (IK2 CX002104)
Article History
Received: 10 January 2025
Accepted: 8 May 2025
First Online: 28 May 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study did not involve any experiments on animals. All procedures performed involving human participants were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: For the Alabama comprehensive stroke center registry, informed consent was not obtained due to the retrospective design of the study using data collected for clinical care. The study was approved by the local institutional review board. For analyses involving the NIS, informed consent was not required as the database contains de-identified, publicly available data.