Quality of care and length of hospital stay among patients with stroke

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 575-582

  Svendsen, Marie Louise ^a,b   Ehlers, Lars Holger ^b   Andersen, Grethe ^a   Johnsen, Søren Paaske ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Center of Public Health   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Quality of care; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DENMARK; DOSE RESPONSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; STROKE; SWALLOWING; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STROKE;

EID: 65549117788     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318195f852     Document Type: Article

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