Effectiveness of Thrombectomy in Stroke According to Baseline Prognostic Factors: Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting Analysis of a Population-Based Registry.

"Disclosure: The authors have no financial conflicts of interest."

"We thank Martha Vargas and Guillem Gallofre for handling the databases for this study. This work was supported by grants from Fondo de Investigacions Sanitarias of the Institut de Salud Carlos III to Ángel Chamorro and Xabier Urra (FIS-ISCIII PI18/00444) co-financed by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). Xabier Urra is sponsored by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, reference number INT19/00020, and by the European Social Fund (The ESF–Investing in your future). Salvatore Rudilosso receives funding from the Institute of Health Carlos III, with a Grant for Health Research (CM18/00116)."

"This is a Real-World Evidence (RWE) analysis using the population-based CICAT registry, which satisfies all legal requirements mandated by the local law of personal data protection. The dataset was processed and analyzed according to local and European laws: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on Data Protection and Spanish Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights. The Ethical Committee at Hospital Clínic approved the study (registry code HCB/2019/0716). Informed consent was waived because of the retrospective nature of the study."