{
  "id": "ph-iv-thrombolysis-rate",
  "title": "IV thrombolysis rate for acute ischaemic stroke, Philippines",
  "metric": "Acute ischaemic strokes treated with IV thrombolysis",
  "unit": "%",
  "kind": "percent",
  "volatility": "annual",
  "direction_note": "the rate is the share of strokes that reach the clot-dissolving drug in time — higher is better, and it starts near zero",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "Frontiers in Neurology (2022), \"Stroke Systems of Care in the Philippines\" (RES-Q database)",
    "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2022.1046351/full"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"IV thrombolysis rate for acute ischaemic stroke, Philippines\" (Acute ischaemic strokes treated with IV thrombolysis). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-iv-thrombolysis-rate.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-iv-thrombolysis-rate.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-iv-thrombolysis-rate.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-08-12",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2014",
      "value": 1.4,
      "source": {
        "label": "Frontiers in Neurology (2022), \"Stroke Systems of Care in the Philippines\" — IV thrombolysis at 1.4% of acute ischaemic strokes, pooled 2014–2016, RES-Q database",
        "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2022.1046351/full"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-12",
      "note": "Pooled RES-Q rate over the 2014–2016 window; keyed here to the window start (2014)."
    },
    {
      "date": "2021",
      "value": 11,
      "source": {
        "label": "Frontiers in Neurology (2022), \"Stroke Systems of Care in the Philippines\" — IV thrombolysis reached 11% of acute ischaemic strokes in 2021 on the RES-Q database",
        "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2022.1046351/full"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-12",
      "note": "11% nationally in 2021; within that year government hospitals ran at 7.4% and private hospitals at 4.8% (RES-Q). Up from the 1.4% pooled 2014–2016 rate — an eight-fold rise off a floor near zero.\n",
      "readings": [
        {
          "value": 11,
          "source": {
            "label": "healthcare-access-cebu-vs-manila sidecar (claim stroke2), citing Navarro et al., Frontiers in Neurology (2022) — \"IV thrombolysis ~11% by 2021\"",
            "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9729337/"
          }
        }
      ],
      "rationale": "Single source; the reading is the same finding cross-verified from the PMC mirror in a second sidecar, recorded as corroboration rather than a competing value."
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}