About the Authors

Anushka Warusevitane

anushka.warusevitane@uhns.nhs.uk

Affiliation Stoke Stroke Research Group, University Hospitals of North Midlands, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Dumin Karunatilake

Affiliation Stroke Unit, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton, United Kingdom

Julius Sim

Affiliation Health Services Research Unit, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Craig Smith

Affiliation Stroke and Vascular Research Centre, University of Manchester, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Christine Roffe

Affiliations Stoke Stroke Research Group, University Hospitals of North Midlands, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, Health Services Research Unit, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW DK CR. Performed the experiments: AW CR. Analyzed the data: JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW JS. Wrote the paper: AW DK JS CS CR.