Can the ABCD2 risk score predict positive diagnostic testing for emergency department patients admitted for transient ischemic attack?

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3202-3205

  Schrock, Jon W ^a   Victor, Aaron ^b   Losey, Theodore ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABCD2 score; Carotid stenosis; Stroke; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; STROKE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TRIAGE;

EID: 70349653320     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.560045     Document Type: Article

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