Evaluation of stroke services in Anglia stroke clinical network to examine the variation in acute services and stroke outcomes

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Myint, Phyo K ^a,b   Potter, John F ^a,b   Price, Gill M ^a   Barton, Garry R ^a   Metcalf, Anthony K ^b   Hale, Rachel ^b   Dalton, Genevieve ^c   Musgrave, Stanley D ^a   George, Abraham ^d   Shekhar, Raj ^e   Owusu Agyei, Peter ^f   Walsh, Kevin ^g   Ngeh, Joseph ^h   Nicholson, Anne ⁱ   Day, Diana J ^j   Warburton, Elizabeth A ^j   Bachmann, Max O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Anglia Stroke and Heart Clinical Network   (United Kingdom)

^d JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g HINCHINGBROOKE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h IPSWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ WEST SUFFOLK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^j ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

COHORT STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATE MEDICINE; STROKE;

EID: 79952054232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-50     Document Type: Article

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