Winter excess in hospital admissions, in-patient mortality and length of acute hospital stay in stroke: A hospital database study over six seasonal years in Norfolk, UK

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 79-85

  Myint, Phyo K ^a,b,c   Vowler, Sarah L ^d   Woodhouse, Peter R ^a,b   Redmayne, Oliver ^a   Fulcher, Robert A ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curwen's Excess Winter Death Index; Stroke register; Stroke, haemorrhagic; Stroke, non haemorrhagic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247390684     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098550     Document Type: Article

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