Echocardiography in acute stroke patients: a nationwide analysis in departments with certified stroke units in Germany

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  Fig. 1. A Bar chart for TTE rates per patients for primary and comprehensive stroke centers. B Bar chart for TEE rates for primary and comprehensive stroke centers

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  Fig. 2. TTE rates in relation to TEE rates per department. Higher TEE rates resulted into lower TTE rates and departments with primary stroke centers had higher TTE rates than departments with comprehensive stroke centers. Both effects can be observed in particular above TEE rates of 20%

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  Fig. 3. Rates of patients undergoing no-, or combined echocardiographic examinations and numbers of stroke units for which these rates were observed. (For interpretation: − 100: In all patient no examination was performed at all; − 75: in at least 75% of patients no examination was performed; 0: In all patients one examination has been performed; + 10: In at least 10% of patients combined examinations have been done; + 100 = In all patients combined examinations have been done)