Agreement regarding diagnosis of transient ischemic attack fairly low among stroke-trained neurologists

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1367-1370

  Castle, James ^a   Mlynash, Michael ^b   Lee, Karming ^c   Caulfield, Anna Finley ^b   Wolford, Connie ^b   Kemp, Stephanie ^b   Hamilton, Scott ^b   Albers, Gregory W ^b   Olivot, Jean Marc ^b  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

diagnosis; interrater agreement; TIA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; NEUROLOGY; PHYSICIANS; STROKE;

EID: 77954177823     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.577650     Document Type: Article

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