Will Increased Awareness among Physicians of the Significance of Sudden Agonizing Headache Affect the Outcome of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage? Coventry and Warwickshire Study: Audit of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Establishing Historical Controls), Hypothesis, Campaign Layout, and Cost Estimation

Stroke

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 807-812

  Tolias, Christos M ^a   Choksey, Munchi S ^a  

^a WALSGRAVE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Headache; Outcome; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; HEADACHE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029881012     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.27.5.807     Document Type: Article

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