Survey of emergency physicians about recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-60

  Brown, Devin L ^a,c   Barsan, William G ^a   Lisabeth, Lynda D ^a   Gallery, Michael E ^b   Morgenstern, Lewis B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21444458290     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.12.025     Document Type: Article

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