Nisha H. Parikh

The rising cost of code stroke imaging and treatment: A six-year experience at a primary stroke center.

PURPOSE The increasing cost of acute stroke evaluation has been well documented. Given the expanded use of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) and endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) in published guidelines, we hypothesized that increasing imaging-associated expenditures would correspond to higher rates of reperfusion therapy....