The authors would like to acknowledge ACEP staff members Megan Sambell, Prateek Sharma, Sam Shahid, and Yale University statistician and E-QUAL data analyst Craig Rothenberg for their support and contributions to this work.

Dr. Zachrison is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Health Services Research for Mass General Brigham Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Lo is the chief of emergency medicine at Sentara Norfolk General and professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va. He is a partner with Emergency Physicians of Tidewater, a local private, democratic group, and chaired the ACEP clinical policy subcommittee on stroke thrombolytics.

Dr. Jauch is chair of the Department of Program Evaluation and Research at the University of North Carolina Health Sciences at MAHEC.

Dr. Venkatesh is professor and chair of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine and chief of emergency medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital.

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