Can telemedicine contribute to fulfill WHO Helsingborg Declaration of specialized stroke care? The Telemedic Pilot Project for Integrative Stroke Care (TEMPiS) in Bavaria

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 362-369

  Audebert, Heinrich J ^a   Wimmer, Martin L J ^a   Hahn, Raymund ^b   Schenkel, Johannes ^a   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^c   Horn, Markus ^c   Haberl, Roman L ^a  

^a Munich Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^b Abteilung fur Innere Medizin   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Clinical; Network; Stroke care; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER; STROKE; TELECOMMUNICATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TRANSFER; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEOCONFERENCING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 27644525949     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088064     Document Type: Article

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