Community socioeconomic status and prehospital times in acute stroke and transient ischemic attack: Do poorer patients have longer delays from 911 call to the emergency department?

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1508-1513

  Kleindorfer, Dawn O ^a   Lindsell, Christopher J ^a   Broderick, Joseph P ^a   Flaherty, Matthew L ^a   Woo, Daniel ^a   Ewing, Irene ^a   Schmit, Pam ^a   Moomaw, Charles ^a   Alwell, Kathleen ^a   Pancioli, Arthur ^a   Jauch, Edward ^a   Khoury, Jane ^a   Miller, Rosie ^a   Schneider, Alexander ^b   Kissela, Brett M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Memorial Mission Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; TELEPHONE TELEMETRY; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745127022     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000222933.94460.dd     Document Type: Article

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