Creation of a bilingual Spanish-English version of the questionnaire for verifying stroke-free status

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 236-239

  Castillo, Pablo R ^a   Brott, Thomas G ^a   Alvarez, Salvador ^b   Meschia, James F ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual questionnaire; Hispanic population; Spanish language standardized questionnaires; Stroke; Stroke symptoms; Telephone interview

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; STROKE;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 4444255253     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079949     Document Type: Article

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