Tse, Dominic
Hill, Michael D.
Coutts, Shelagh B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Article History
First Online: 14 May 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Dominic Tse declares no potential conflicts of interest. Shelagh Coutts received research/grant support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CRH-112319), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (G-16-00012585), and Genome Canada (143TIA-Penn). Michael D. Hill reports payment for serving as a stroke outcome event adjudicator for a panel of clinical trials from Merck; reports non-financial support for a drug received as in-kind support for a clinical trial—TEMPO-1 trial, 2013–2016 from Hoffmann-La Roche Canada Ltd.; reports grant to the University of Calgary support the ESCAPE trial 2012–2014 from Covidien (Medtronic); reports grant to the University of Calgary support the TEMPO-2 trial 2016-present; Advisory board for the COLUMBUS registry from Boehringer-Ingleheim; reports grant to the University of Calgary to support the UNMASK-EVT study 2017–present from Stryker Inc.; reports grant to the University of Calgary for the HERMES collaboration 2016-present from Medtronic LLC; reports grant to the University of Calgary to support the ESCAPE-NA1 study 2017-present from NoNO Inc., outside the submitted work. In addition, Dr. Hill has a patent Systems and Methods for Assisting in Decision-Making and Triaging for Acute Stroke Patients pending to US Patent office Number: 62/086,077 and owns stock in Calgary Scientific Incorporated, a company that focuses on medical imaging software, is also a director of the Canadian Federation of Neurological Sciences, a not-for-profit group and has received grant support from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, CIHR, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, and National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
: All reported studies/experiments with human or animal subjects performed by the authors have been previously published and complied with all applicable ethical standards (including the Helsinki declaration and its amendments, institutional/national research committee standards, and international/national/institutional guidelines).