Organized outpatient care: Stroke prevention clinic referrals are associated with reduced mortality after transient ischemic attack and ischemic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3176-3182

  Webster, Fiona ^a   Saposnik, Gustavo ^b,c,e   Kapral, Moira K ^b,c,d   Fang, Jiming ^c   O'Callaghan, Chris ^f   Hachinski, Vladimir ^f  

^a Management and Evaluation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

secondary prevention; stroke mortality; transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE PREVENTION CLINIC; SURVIVAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 80055023647     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.621524     Document Type: Article

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