Cluster-Randomized, Crossover Trial of Head Positioning in Acute Stroke.

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Published in N Engl J Med on June 22, 2017

Authors

Craig S Anderson1, Hisatomi Arima1, Pablo Lavados1, Laurent Billot1, Maree L Hackett1, Verónica V Olavarría1, Paula Muñoz Venturelli1, Alejandro Brunser1, Bin Peng1, Liying Cui1, Lily Song1, Kris Rogers1, Sandy Middleton1, Joyce Y Lim1, Denise Forshaw1, C Elizabeth Lightbody1, Mark Woodward1, Octavio Pontes-Neto1, H Asita De Silva1, Ruey-Tay Lin1, Tsong-Hai Lee1, Jeyaraj D Pandian1, Gillian E Mead1, Thompson Robinson1, Caroline Watkins1, HeadPoST Investigators and Coordinators

Author Affiliations

1: From the George Institute for Global Health (C.S.A., H.A., L.B., M.L.H., P.M.V., K.R., J.Y.L., M.W.) and Faculty of Medicine (C.S.A., L.B., M.L.H., L.S., K.R., J.Y.L., M.W.), University of New South Wales, the Neurology Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Health Partners (C.S.A.), the Nursing Research Institute, St. Vincent's Health (S.M.), and Australian Catholic University (S.M., C.W.) - all in Sydney; the George Institute China at Peking University Health Science Center (C.S.A., L.S.) and the Department of Neurology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (B.P., L.C.) Beijing, and the Department of Neurology, 85 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Shanghai (L.S.) - all in China; the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan (H.A.); the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Clínica Alemana de Santiago (P.L., V.V.O., P.M.V., A.B.), Facultad de Medicina, Clínica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo (P.L.), and Departamento de Ciencias Neurológicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile (P.L.) - all in Santiago, Chile; the College of Health and Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston (M.L.H., D.F., C.E.L., C.W.), the George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford (M.W.), the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (G.E.M.), and the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester (T.R.) - all in the United Kingdom; the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (M.W.); the Stroke Service-Neurology Division, Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo (O.P.-N.); the Clinical Trials Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka (H.A.D.S.); the Department of Neurology, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India (J.D.P.); and the Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University and Hospital, Kaohsiung (R.-T.L.), and the Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan (T.-H.L.) - both in Taiwan.

Associated clinical trials:

Head Position in Stroke Trial (HeadPoST) (HeadPoST) | NCT02162017

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