An emergency medical services toolkit for improving systems of care for stroke in North Carolina

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Williams, Ishmael ^a   Mears, Greg ^b   Raisor, Cindy ^c   Wilson, Jenny ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c EMS Performance Improvement Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NORTH CAROLINA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS; SOFTWARE; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66449087714     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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