Optimizing stroke clinical trial design: Estimating the proportion of eligible patients

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2236-2238

  Taylor, Alexis ^a   Castle, Amanda ^b   Merino, José G ^a,c   Hsia, Amie ^a,b,d   Kidwell, Chelsea S ^b,d   Warach, Steven ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SUBURBAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute ischemic stroke; age; clinical trial; National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; time factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; THEORETICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77958008385     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.578252     Document Type: Article

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