Effect of weekend compared with weekday stroke admission on thrombolytic use, in-hospital mortality, discharge disposition, hospital charges, and length of stay in the nationwide inpatient sample database, 2002 to 2007

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2323-2328

  Hoh, Brian L ^a   Chi, Yueh Yun ^b   Waters, Michael F ^b   Mocco, J ^a   Barker, Fred G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital charges; ischemic stroke; length of hospitalization; mortality; outcome; thrombolytic; weekend

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958016081     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.591081     Document Type: Article

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