Telemedically provided stroke expertise beyond normal working hours: The Telemedical Project for Integrative Stroke Care

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 332-337

  Vatankhah, Bijan ^a   Schenkel, Johannes ^b   Fürst, Andrea ^a   Haberl, Roman L ^b   Audebert, Heinrich J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Munich Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Stroke care, weekend, off time; Telemedicine; Telestroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TELECONSULTATION; TELEMEDICINE; WORKING TIME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42349097597     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000118378     Document Type: Article

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