Establishing Sickle Cell Disease Stroke Prevention Teams in Africa is Feasible: Program Evaluation Using the RE-AIM Framework.

"M.R.D.: had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. M.R.D.: designed the study. S.U.A. and M.A.T.: provided the TCD training. A.H.D., H.B.-M., H.I., A.T., A.A.S., B.W.J., S.G., Y.K., L.H., S.A., M.A.Z., and N.I.: administered the TCD screening. E.T. and L.J.: verified the neurological examinations. A.I.G., F.M.U., M.A.T., A.I.G., S.U.A., B.C.G., J.G., and D.L.G.: collected the data. D.L.G. and M.R.: performed the analyses. M.R.D., S.A., D.L.G., A.A.B., M.R.D.: interpreted the results. D.L.G., A.A.B., L.C.J., E.T., M.H.A., and M.R.D.: wrote the manuscript. Before submission, all authors reviewed the manuscript.The authors declare no conflict of interest."

"The authors are posthumously thankful for Shehi Ali, MBBS, who was a radiologist certified to complete transcranial Doppler ultrasounds and later certified physicians and nurses to conduct the assessment in Nigeria. They are grateful to their research coordinators and study personnel who tirelessly coordinated the trial in Kano, Nigeria, and Kaduna, Nigeria. We are grateful to Fenella Kirkham for teaching the physicians how to conduct a pediatric neurology examination in Nashville, TN. They appreciate Mustafa Nateqi and Jennifer Beck for facilitating administrative tasks required for the successful conduct of this study. They also appreciate Khadija Bulama, Gloria Bahago, and Fahad Usman for facilitating administrative and operational tasks required for the successful conduct of this study. The authors also thank the members of the DeBaun Laboratory at Vanderbilt-Meharry Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease for their support of this work and the Phillips’ family donation of 10 transcranial Doppler machines to facilitate the success of the Stroke Prevention Program across three states in northern Nigeria. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant #1R01NS094041-01, P50 CA-19-006, NCT 03380351, UL1 TR00234, 5U24HL136790, the Thrasher Foundation, and the generous donation of the Phillips family. The sponsor did not have any role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication."