Case fatality of stroke and day of the week: Is the weekend effect an artifact? Takashima Stroke Registry, Japan (1988-2003)

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 606-611

  Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Rumana, Nahid ^a   Ichikawa, Masaharu ^c   Sugihara, Hideki ^c   Morita, Yutaka ^d   Tomioka, Nobuyoshi ^b   Okayama, Akira ^e   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^f   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Takashima General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Makino Hospital   (Japan)

^e First Institute for Health Promotion and Health Care   (Japan)

^f KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Day of the week; Epidemiology; Fatality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HOLIDAYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGISTRIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54149111155     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000165114     Document Type: Article

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