Developing predictive models of excellent and devastating outcome after stroke

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 560-564

  Reid, John M ^a   Dai, Dingwei ^b   Christian, Christine ^c   Reidy, Yvette ^c   Counsell, Carl ^d   Gubitz, Gord J ^c   Phillips, Stephen J ^c  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Leukoaraiosis; Modelling; Outcome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVASTATING OUTCOME; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCELLENT OUTCOME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LIVING ALONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STROKE; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOVA SCOTIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE PERSON; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864016791     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs034     Document Type: Article

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