Admitting acute ischemic stroke patients to a stroke care monitoring unit versus a conventional stroke unit: A randomized pilot study

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-104

  Sulter, Geert ^a   Elting, Jan Willem ^a   Langedijk, Marc ^a   Maurits, Natasha M ^a   De Keyser, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ischemia; Stroke assessment; Stroke management; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT ADMISSION; PILOT PROJECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037227080     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000048148.09143.6C     Document Type: Article

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