Disposition after acute stroke: Who is not sent home from hospital?

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-29

  Lai, Sue Min ^a,e   Alter, Milton ^b   Friday, Gary ^b   Lai, Sue Ling ^c   Sobel, Eugene ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge planning; Nursing home; Rehabilitation facility; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; REHABILITATION CENTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEW JERSEY; NURSING HOMES; PENNSYLVANIA; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031965532     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026150     Document Type: Article

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