Patients' and bystanders' awareness of stroke and pre-hospital delay after stroke onset: Perspectives for thrombolysis in West Pomerania Province, Poland

European Neurology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 159-165

  Nowacki, Przemysław ^a   Nowik, Marta ^a   Bajer Czajkowska, Anna ^a   Porȩbska, Agata ^a   Zywica, Adrian ^a   Nocoń, Danuta ^a   Drechsler, Hanna ^a   Safranow, Krzysztof ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Prehospital delay; Stroke onset; Therapeutic window; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY CARE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35348833513     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000104717     Document Type: Article

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