Stroke monitoring on a national level: PERFECT stroke, a comprehensive, registry-linkage stroke database in Finland

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2239-2246

  Meretoja, Atte ^a   Roine, Risto O ^b   Kaste, Markku ^a   Linna, Miika ^c   Juntunen, Merja ^c   Erilä, Terttu ^d   Hillbom, Matti ^e   Marttila, Reijo ^b   Rissanen, Aimo ^f   Sivenius, Juhani ^g   Häkkinen, Unto ^c  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

acute stroke; organized stroke care; registry

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS DIPYRIDAMOLE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DATA BASE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REGISTER; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; STROKE;

EID: 77957994985     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.595173     Document Type: Article

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