Less Experienced Telestroke Consultants Are More Likely to Go On-Camera, but Less Likely to Give tPA

Table 1

Telestroke characteristics between providers with less (all new to telestroke) and more experience (mean = 7.8 years).

Variable (mean ± SD)	Providers with less experience	Providers with more experience	p-value for difference of means
Total telestroke consults (phone-only and on-camera) (n)	163 ± 22	110 ± 20	0.013
Total consults completed on-camera (%)	78.8 ± 6.4	67.1 ± 4.0	0.021
On-camera consults with any technical connection issue (%)	15.6 ± 3.3	19.4 ± 1.3	0.601
Technical issues that resulted in failure of on-camera consult (%)	2.7 ± 0.8	3.8 ± 2.4	0.407
On-camera consults that resulted in tPA administration (%)	24.7 ± 3.9	33.0 ± 3.8	0.023
Total consults that resulted in tPA administration (%)	19.3 ± 2.5	22.2 ± 3.3	0.217