The time interval window between stroke onset and hospitalization and its related factors

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-246

  Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Rumana, Nahid ^a   Takashima, Naoyuki ^a   Ichikawa, Masaharu ^b   Sugihara, Hideki ^b   Morita, Yutaka ^c   Miura, Katsuyuki ^a   Okayama, Akira ^d   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^e   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Takashima General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Makino Hospital   (Japan)

^d First Institute for Health Promotion and Health Care   (Japan)

^e KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Hospital delay; Stroke onset and hospitalization, time interval; Takashima stroke registry, Japan; Time window

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGISTRIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 67651207187     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000229778     Document Type: Article

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