Rapid assessment and intervention at specialist outpatient clinics - Time for a new standard in TIA care? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 184-185

  Albers, Gregory W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; SIMVASTATIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 42049121412     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0733     Document Type: Short Survey

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