Transient ischaemic attacks: Desired diagnosis and management by Polish primary care physicians

Family Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 464-468

  Tomasik, T ^b   Windak, A ^b   Margas, G ^b   de Melker, R A ^a   Jacobs, H M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; General practice; Management; Transient ischaemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; PERIPHERAL VASODILATING AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLAND; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0042164487     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmg423     Document Type: Article

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