Characteristics and outcome of acute stroke patients not investigated with computerised tomography scan

Gerontology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 321-324

  Sharma, Jagdish ^a,b   Fletcher, Sally ^a   Vassallo, Michael ^a   Butcher, Clive ^a   Ross, Ian ^a  

^a KING S MILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Mansfield Community Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Computerised tomography scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036061139     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065257     Document Type: Article

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