Assessment of unilateral spatial neglect post stroke in Canadian acute care hospitals: Are we neglecting neglect?

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 623-634

  Menon Nair, Anita ^a   Korner Bitensky, Nicol ^a   Wood Dauphinee, Sharon ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; ONTARIO; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746875208     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215506cr974oa     Document Type: Article

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