Inpatient costs of specific cerebrovascular events at five academic medical centers

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 854-860

  Holloway, R G ^a,b   Witter Jr , D M ^a,b   Lawton, K B ^a   Lipscomb, J ^b,c   Samsa, G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Dept of Comm and Prev Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0029877727     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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