An Emergency Department Diagnostic Protocol for Patients With Transient Ischemic Attack: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-119

  Ross, Michael A ^a,b   Compton, Scott ^b   Medado, Patrick ^a   Fitzgerald, Maureen ^a   Kilanowski, Philip ^a   O'Neil, Brian J ^a,b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECIDIVISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447579020     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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