Improving care to stroke patients: Adding an acute stroke unit helps

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1250, 2007, Pages

  Hanger, H Carl ^a   Fletcher, Valerie ^a,b   Fink, John ^c   Sidwell, Andrew ^a,b   Roche, Anne ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; REHABILITATION CENTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE PATIENT; STROKE UNIT; DEMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847794897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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