About the Authors

Elaine Loughlin

Contributed equally to this work with: Elaine Loughlin, Ahmed Gabr, Rose Galvin, Margaret O’Connor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

elaineyloughlin@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Ageing and Therapeutics, and Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick Hospitals Group, Limerick, Ireland

Ahmed Gabr

Contributed equally to this work with: Elaine Loughlin, Ahmed Gabr, Rose Galvin, Margaret O’Connor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ageing and Therapeutics, and Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick Hospitals Group, Limerick, Ireland

Rose Galvin

Contributed equally to this work with: Elaine Loughlin, Ahmed Gabr, Rose Galvin, Margaret O’Connor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Allied Health, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Joan McCormack

Roles Data curation

‡ JM, OB, MJO, RC, JT and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Office of Clinical Audit, Ireland

Olga Brych

Roles Data curation

‡ JM, OB, MJO, RC, JT and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Office of Clinical Audit, Ireland

Martin J. O’Donnell

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ JM, OB, MJO, RC, JT and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation HRB-Clinical Research Facility, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

Rónán Collins

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ JM, OB, MJO, RC, JT and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Clinical Lead, National Stroke Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Health Service Executive, Ireland

John Thornton

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ JM, OB, MJO, RC, JT and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neuroradiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Joseph Harbison

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ JM, OB, MJO, RC, JT and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Margaret O’Connor

Contributed equally to this work with: Elaine Loughlin, Ahmed Gabr, Rose Galvin, Margaret O’Connor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ageing and Therapeutics, and Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick Hospitals Group, Limerick, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.