Population-based study of determinants of initial secondary care costs of acute stroke in the United Kingdom

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2579-2587

  Luengo Fernandez, Ramon ^a   Gray, Alastair M ^a   Rothwell, Peter M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs and cost analysis; Outcome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABILITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33749029642     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000240508.28625.2c     Document Type: Article

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