Can the ABCD Score be dichotomised to identify high-risk patients with transient ischaemic attack in the emergency department?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 92-95

  Bray, Janet E ^a   Coughlan, Kelly ^b   Bladin, Christopher ^b,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BOX HILL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846811595     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.041624     Document Type: Article

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