National Study on Emergency Department Visits for Transient Ischemic Attack, 1992-2001

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 666-672

  Edlow, Jonathan A ^a   Kim, Sunghye ^a   Pelletier, Andrea J ^a   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical guidelines; stroke; transient cerebral ischemia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RACE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746407302     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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