A prospective study of predictors of prolonged hospital stay and disability after stroke

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 665-669

  Spratt, Neil ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Levi, Christopher ^a   Ng, Karl ^a   Evans, Malcolm ^a   Fisher, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disability; Hospital stay; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

EID: 0242474300     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2002.12.001     Document Type: Article

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