The impact of a concurrent trauma alert evaluation on time to head computed tomography in patients with suspected stroke

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 349-352

  Chen, Esther H ^a,c   Mills, Angela M ^a   Lee, Bruce Y ^b   Robey, Jennifer L ^a   Zogby, Kara E ^a   Shofer, Frances S ^a   Reilly, Patrick M ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Crowding; Emergency service; Head computed tomography; Stroke; Trauma alert

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRAUMA ALERT EVALUATION; URBAN AREA; VERTIGO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PENNSYLVANIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644514079     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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