Emergency department shift change is associated with pneumonia in patients with acute ischemic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3226-3230

  Jones, Erica M ^a   Albright, Karen C ^b   Fossati Bellani, Marco ^a   Siegler, James E ^a   Martin Schild, Sheryl ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; complications; nursing; outcomes; pneumonia; shift change

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSING SHIFT CHANGE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; STROKE PATIENT; STROKE UNIT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS INFECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 80055013745     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.613026     Document Type: Article

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