Response to symptoms of stroke in the UK: A systematic review

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lecouturier, Jan ^a   Murtagh, Madeleine J ^b   Thomson, Richard G ^a   Ford, Gary A ^a   White, Martin ^a   Eccles, Martin ^a   Rodgers, Helen ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 77953124665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-157     Document Type: Article

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