Can comprehensive stroke centers erase the 'weekend effect'?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Albright, Karen C ^a   Raman, Rema ^a,b   Ernstrom, Karin ^b   Hallevi, Hen ^d   Martin Schild, Sheryl ^d   Meyer, Brett C ^a   Meyer, Dawn M ^c   Morales, Miriam M ^d   Grotta, James C ^d   Lyden, Patrick D ^a   Savitz, Sean I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Outcomes research; Quality of healthcare; Stroke; Weekend

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; NURSING CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; TRAINING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749101688     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177916     Document Type: Article

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