How do general practitioners manage patients at risk from stroke?

British Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 426-430

  Mead, G E ^a,c   Murray, H ^a   McCollum, C N ^b   O'Neill, P A ^a  

^a Eastern General Hopsital ^*

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^c Eastern General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 0030346012     PISSN: 00070947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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