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First Online: 23 May 2019

Conflicts of Interest

: Andrew M. Demchuk reports grants from NovoNordisk Canada, during the conduct of the study; Jean-Martin Boulanger reports other from Pfizer, other from Novartis, outside the submitted work; Cheemun Lum has deceased; Michael D. Hill reports personal fees from Merck, non-financial support from Hoffmann-La Roche Canada Ltd, grants from Covidien (Medtronic), grants from Boehringer-Ingleheim, grants from Stryker Inc., grants from Medtronic LLC, grants from NoNO Inc., outside the submitted work; In addition, 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 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, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Magdy Selim reports grants from NIH/NINDS, during the conduct of the study and the remaining authors have nothing to disclose.

: Local research ethics board approval was obtained at all enrolling sites, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants.