Trends in stroke attack rates and case fatality in the Hunter Region, Australia 1996-2008

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 500-507

  Marsden, Dianne L ^a,b   Spratt, Neil J ^a,b,c   Walker, Rhonda ^a   Barker, Daniel ^b   Attia, John ^a,b,c   Pollack, Michael ^a,b,c   Parsons, Mark W ^a,b,c   Levi, Christopher R ^a,b,c  

^a Hunter New England Area Health Service   (Australia)

^b HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Attack rate; Australia; Case fatality; Epidemiology; Gender; Hospital based register; Stroke; Trends

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CALCULATION; CODING; DISEASE REGISTRY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW SOUTH WALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 77956829440     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319022     Document Type: Article

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