Trial registration & Committees Title Start or STop Anticoagulants Randomised Trial (SoSTART) after spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage Co-sponsors University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian ACCORD The Queen’s Medical Research Institute 47 Little France Crescent Edinburgh EH16 4TJ Funders Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (Res16/A166); Medical Research Council (G1002605), British Heart Fundation (CS/18/2/33719) Chief investigator Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman Sponsor number AC16141 EudraCT number 2016-004121-16 ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT03153150 REC number 17/SS/0082 Version number and date 6.0, 23 January 2020 Trial Steering Committe Colin N. Baigent (independent chairperson) Professor of epidemiology, University of Oxford Rustam Al-Shahi Salman (chief investigator) Professor of clinical neurology, University of Edinburgh Honorary consultant neurologist, NHS Lothian Kasia Adamczuk (assistant trial manager) CCBS, University of Edinburgh Karen Innes (trial manager) FOCUS and RESTART trial manager, University of Edinburgh Colin Oliver (non-medical ‘lay’ member) Lay member, Edinburgh Steff Lewis (trial statistician) Personal chair in medical statistics, University of Edinburgh David E. Newby BHF Professor of cardiology, University of Edinburgh Gregory Y.H. Lip Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Martin S. Dennis Professor of stroke medicine, University of Edinburgh Adrian Parry-Jones NIHR Clinician Scientist, University of Manchester Honorary consultant neurologist, Salford Dan Lasserson Professor of Ambulatory Care, University of Birmingham Sponsor representative ACCORD, University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian Phil M. White Professor of interventional and diagnostic neuroradiology, University of Newcastle Shannon Amoils (funding representative) Senior Research Adviser, British Heart Foundation Data Monitoring Committee Dr John Bamford (chairperson) Consultant neurologist and Clinical Associate Professor, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Professor Jane Armitage Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology, CTSU, University of Oxford Professor Jonathan Emberson Senior statistician, CTSU, University of Oxford Professor Gabriel Rinkel Professor of neurology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands Professor Gordon Lowe Honorary senior research fellow, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow This article was published on 2024-08-27