Risk stratification tools for transient ischemic attack: Which patients require hospital admission?

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-251

  Cumbler, Ethan ^a,b   Glasheen, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Evidence based medicine; Hospitalist; Ischemic stroke; Neurology; Risk stratification; Systems; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ABCD SCORE; CALIFORNIA SCORE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISABLED PERSONS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LIPIDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDERS; STROKE;

EID: 67649494704     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.411     Document Type: Review

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