Early assessment by a mobile stroke team: A randomised controlled trial

Age and Ageing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 331-338

  Dey, Paola ^a,f   Woodman, Miriam ^b   Gibbs, Alan ^a   Steele, Robert ^c   Stocks, S Jill ^a   Wagstaff, Susan ^d   Khanna, Veneet ^e   Chaudhuri, Mohan Datta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Gateway House   (United Kingdom)

^c Central Liverpool Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^d STEPPING HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTH MANCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Bury Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Elderly; Patient team care; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; WARD; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26944503541     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afi102     Document Type: Article

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