A Multicenter Evaluation of the ABCD2 Score's Accuracy for Predicting Early Ischemic Stroke in Admitted Patients With Transient Ischemic Attack

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Asimos, Andrew W ^a   Johnson, Anna M ^b   Rosamond, Wayne D ^b   Price, Marlow F ^a   Rose, Kathryn M ^b   Catellier, Diane ^b   Murphy, Carol V ^b   Singh, Sam ^a   Tegeler, Charles H ^c   Felix, Ana ^d  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED STATES; WEAKNESS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 74149093249     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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