Protocol Contents
The protocol is available to download as a PDF.
- Website address, and contents of the ACST-2 ring binder
- Background
- Design and Objectives
- Starting at a centre: approving procedural Track Records
- Identifying potentially eligible patients
- Offering (and re-offering) information leaflet and consent form
- Randomising by telephone
- Treating (performing the allocated procedure)
- 1-month post-procedural follow-up
- Long-term annual follow-up (organised by the ACST office)
- Strokes and other major events
- Economic evaluation
- Sample size, data analysis and safety monitoring
- Patient withdrawal
- Trial organisation
- Funding
- Protocol modifications
- Publication
- Trial organisation and committees
- References
- Appendices