Gender and family composition related to discharge destination and length of hospital stay after acute stroke

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 325-332

  Ohwaki, Kazuhiro ^b   Hashimoto, Hideki ^b   Sato, Mikiya ^b   Tokuda, Hajime ^a   Yano, Eiji ^b  

^a Tokuda Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Family; Gender; Hospitalization; Stroke outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 29144482999     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.207.325     Document Type: Article

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