Family physician decisions following stroke symptom onset and delay times to ambulance call

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mosley, Ian ^a,b   Nicol, Marcus ^a   Donnan, Geoffrey ^a,c   Dewey, Helen ^a,c,d  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; TIME;

AGED; AMBULANCES; EMERGENCIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79961122185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-82     Document Type: Article

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