Off-hour admission and in-hospital stroke case fatality in the get with the guidelines-stroke program

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 569-576

  Reeves, Mathew J ^a   Smith, Eric ^b   Fonarow, Gregg ^d   Hernandez, Adrian ^c   Pan, Wenqin ^c   Schwamm, Lee H ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Outcomes; Quality improvement; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFF HOUR ADMISSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; AGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 60549109226     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.519355     Document Type: Article

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