Stroke in patients aged over 75 years: Outcome and predictors

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 807, 1993, Pages 33-36

  Kalra, L ^a   Smith, D H ^a   Crome, P ^a,b  

^a Orpington Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STROKE; SURVIVAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0027415351     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.69.807.33     Document Type: Article

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