The effect of health care provider consultation on acute coronary syndrome care-seeking delay

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 307-318

  Alonzo, Angelo A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548441560     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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