Table 1 Patients characteristics
All patients included n = 1298 | True positive patients n = 201 | False positive patients n = 1037 | False negative patients n = 60 | p = | ||||||
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Sex and age | ||||||||||
Female n= (%) | 688 (53) | 99 (49) | 560 (54) | 29 (48) | 0.354 | |||||
Age median (25 and 75 percentiles) | 75 (61–85) | 78 (69–87) | 74 (60–85) | 79 (63–87) | < 0.001 | |||||
EMCC priority | ||||||||||
Acute priority n= (%) | 1239 (6) | 199 (99) | 1008 (97) | 32 (53) | < 0.001 | |||||
Urgent priority n= (%) | 57 (4) | 2 (1) | 29 (3) | 26 (43) | < 0.001 | |||||
Non-urgent priority n= (%) | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (3) | < 0.001 | |||||
Verified stroke diagnoses at discharge (n = 261) | ||||||||||
Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) n= (%) | 138 (68) | - | 38 (63) | 0.44 | ||||||
Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) n= (%) | 25 (12) | - | 15 (25) | 0.02 | ||||||
Transient ischemic attack (TIA) n= (%) | 38 (18) | - | 7 (11) | 0.19 | ||||||
Verified non-stroke diagnoses at discharge (n = 286) | ||||||||||
Diseases of the nervous system (G00– G99) n= (%) | - | 51 (5) | - | NA | ||||||
Cerebrovascular diseases (except stroke) (I60-I69) n= (%) | - | 19 (2) | - | NA | ||||||
Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R298) n= (%) | - | 15 (2) | - | NA | ||||||
Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behavior (R40-R46) n= (%) | - | 21 (2) | - | NA | ||||||
Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice (R47-R49) n= (%) | - | 9 (0.9) | - | NA | ||||||
Other non-stroke diagnoses n= (%) | - | 171 (17) | - | NA | ||||||