Arrival time to stroke unit as crucial a measure as arrival time to emergency department [5]

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Middleton, Sandy ^a   Levi, Christopher ^b   Dale, Simeon ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; STROKE UNIT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPHAGIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; NOTE; STATISTICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38149069801     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.501890     Document Type: Letter

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