Differences in the pre‐hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales

In reply: We thank Kilkenny and colleagues1 for their comments on our article.2 Kilkenny and colleagues examined sex differences in pre‐hospital management among 6262 patients with first‐ever strokes from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (2010–2013) linked with administrative data (emergency, hospital admissions).3 They found that more women (78.8%) arrived by ambulance than men (72.9%); however, following adjustments for age, frailty and stroke severity, the sex differences were no longer statistically significant.