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External validation of stroke mimic prediction scales in the emergency department

BACKGROUND: Acute ischemic stroke is a time-sensitive emergency where accurate diagnosis is required promptly. Due to time pressures, stroke mimics who present with similar signs and symptoms as acute ischemic stroke, pose a diagnostic challenge to the emergency physician. With limited access to inv...

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Autores principales: Tu, Tian Ming, Tan, Guan Zhong, Saffari, Seyed Ehsan, Wee, Chee Keong, Chee, David Jeremiah Ming Siang, Tan, Camlyn, Lim, Hoon Chin
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7339435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32635897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-020-01846-6
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author Tu, Tian Ming
Tan, Guan Zhong
Saffari, Seyed Ehsan
Wee, Chee Keong
Chee, David Jeremiah Ming Siang
Tan, Camlyn
Lim, Hoon Chin
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Tan, Guan Zhong
Saffari, Seyed Ehsan
Wee, Chee Keong
Chee, David Jeremiah Ming Siang
Tan, Camlyn
Lim, Hoon Chin
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description BACKGROUND: Acute ischemic stroke is a time-sensitive emergency where accurate diagnosis is required promptly. Due to time pressures, stroke mimics who present with similar signs and symptoms as acute ischemic stroke, pose a diagnostic challenge to the emergency physician. With limited access to investigative tools, clinical prediction, tools based only on clinical features, may be useful to identify stroke mimics. We aim to externally validate the performance of 4 stroke mimic prediction scales, and derive a novel decision tree, to improve identification of stroke mimics. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study at a primary stroke centre, served by a telestroke hub. We included consecutive patients who were administered intravenous thrombolysis for suspected acute ischemic stroke from January 2015 to October 2017. Four stroke mimic prediction tools (FABS, simplified FABS, Telestroke Mimic Score and Khan Score) were rated simultaneously, using only clinical information prior to administration of thrombolysis. The final diagnosis was ascertained by an independent stroke neurologist. Area under receiver operating curve (AUROC) analysis was performed. A classification tree analysis was also conducted using variables which were found to be significant in the univariate analysis. RESULTS: Telestroke Mimic Score had the highest discrimination for stroke mimics among the 4 scores tested (AUROC = 0.75, 95% CI = 0.63–0.87). However, all 4 scores performed similarly (DeLong p > 0.05). Telestroke Mimic Score had the highest sensitivity (91.3%), while Khan score had the highest specificity (88.2%). All 4 scores had high positive predictive value (88.1 to 97.5%) and low negative predictive values (4.7 to 32.3%). A novel decision tree, using only age, presence of migraine and psychiatric history, had a higher prediction performance (AUROC = 0.80). CONCLUSION: Four tested stroke mimic prediction scales performed similarly to identify stroke mimics in the emergency setting. A novel decision tree may improve the identification of stroke mimics.
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spelling pubmed-73394352020-07-09 External validation of stroke mimic prediction scales in the emergency department Tu, Tian Ming Tan, Guan Zhong Saffari, Seyed Ehsan Wee, Chee Keong Chee, David Jeremiah Ming Siang Tan, Camlyn Lim, Hoon Chin BMC Neurol Research Article BACKGROUND: Acute ischemic stroke is a time-sensitive emergency where accurate diagnosis is required promptly. Due to time pressures, stroke mimics who present with similar signs and symptoms as acute ischemic stroke, pose a diagnostic challenge to the emergency physician. With limited access to investigative tools, clinical prediction, tools based only on clinical features, may be useful to identify stroke mimics. We aim to externally validate the performance of 4 stroke mimic prediction scales, and derive a novel decision tree, to improve identification of stroke mimics. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study at a primary stroke centre, served by a telestroke hub. We included consecutive patients who were administered intravenous thrombolysis for suspected acute ischemic stroke from January 2015 to October 2017. Four stroke mimic prediction tools (FABS, simplified FABS, Telestroke Mimic Score and Khan Score) were rated simultaneously, using only clinical information prior to administration of thrombolysis. The final diagnosis was ascertained by an independent stroke neurologist. Area under receiver operating curve (AUROC) analysis was performed. A classification tree analysis was also conducted using variables which were found to be significant in the univariate analysis. RESULTS: Telestroke Mimic Score had the highest discrimination for stroke mimics among the 4 scores tested (AUROC = 0.75, 95% CI = 0.63–0.87). However, all 4 scores performed similarly (DeLong p > 0.05). Telestroke Mimic Score had the highest sensitivity (91.3%), while Khan score had the highest specificity (88.2%). All 4 scores had high positive predictive value (88.1 to 97.5%) and low negative predictive values (4.7 to 32.3%). A novel decision tree, using only age, presence of migraine and psychiatric history, had a higher prediction performance (AUROC = 0.80). CONCLUSION: Four tested stroke mimic prediction scales performed similarly to identify stroke mimics in the emergency setting. A novel decision tree may improve the identification of stroke mimics. BioMed Central 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7339435/ /pubmed/32635897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-020-01846-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Tu, Tian Ming
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Wee, Chee Keong
Chee, David Jeremiah Ming Siang
Tan, Camlyn
Lim, Hoon Chin
External validation of stroke mimic prediction scales in the emergency department
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7339435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32635897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-020-01846-6
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