Variables associated with discordance between emergency physician and neurologist diagnoses of transient ischemic attacks in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-26

  Schrock, Jon W ^a   Glasenapp, Michael ^a   Victor, Aaron ^b   Losey, Theodore ^a   Cydulka, Rita K ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFUSION; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SKIN TINGLING; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO;

AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 83655163938     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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