National survey of canadian neurologists'current practice for transient ischemic attack and the need for a clinical decision rule

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 987-991

  Perry, Jeffrey J ^a   Mansour, Marlène ^a   Sharma, Michael ^a   Symington, Cheryl ^a   Brehaut, Jamie ^a   Taljaard, Monica ^a   Stiell, Ian G ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision rule; Survey; TIA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; PHYSICIANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77951765621     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.577007     Document Type: Article

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