Reduction in Racial Differences in Stroke Thrombolytics in Flint, Michigan

Abstract

lack people receive less stroke thrombolysis than White people. 1 We conducted Stroke Ready, a stroke preparedness intervention, first as a small-scale pilot study from 2010 to 2015 2 and then city-wide in Flint, MI, from October 2017 to March 2020. 3 Between 2010 and 2020, Flint transformed from a low-performing region to a high-performing region for stroke thrombolysis. 4 We sought to understand how racial differences in stroke thrombolytics changed during this period. ANALYSISWe compared Black and non-Black patients with stroke using descriptive statistics. In the primary analysis limited to Flint patients with stroke, we used a generalized linear mixed model with a log link to assess the