Acute stroke centre - the changing focus of stroke unit care. The Bergen NORSTROKE Study

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 410-415

  Thomassen, L ^a,b   Waje Andreassen, U ^a   Broegger, J ^a   Naess H ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Cerebrovascular diseases; Stroke centre; Stroke unit

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE STROKE CENTER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CARDIOGENIC EMBOLUS; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MIGRAINE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REHABILITATION CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYNCOPE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; WARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860109497     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2011.01582.x     Document Type: Article

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