Clinical prediction with the ABCD2 score: At what cost?

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Sanders, Lauren M ^a   Srikanth, Velandai K ^a   Blacker, David J ^b   Phan, Thanh G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCD SYSTEM; ANALYTIC METHOD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE COST; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALIDATION PROCESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR;

HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TRIAGE;

EID: 78149320241     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.588426     Document Type: Letter

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