Implementation of an Emergency Department-based Transient Ischemic Attack Clinical Pathway: A Pilot Study in Knowledge Translation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1114-1119

  Brown, Michael D ^a   Reeves, Mathew J ^a   Glynn, Ted ^a   Majid, Arshad ^a   Kothari, Rashmi U ^a  

^a Emergency Medicine Grand Rapids Medical Education And Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical pathway; emergency department; TIA; transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RECURRENCE; STROKE;

EID: 35448982332     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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