Readmission after stroke in a hospital-based registry: Risk, etiologies, and risk factors

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 438-443

  Lin, Huey Juan ^a   Chang, Wei Lun ^a   Tseng, Mei Chiun ^b  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMALL VESSEL OCCLUSION; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TAIWAN; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 79951469353     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31820a0cd8     Document Type: Article

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