Neighborhood income and stroke care and outcomes

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1200-1207

  Kapral, Moira K ^a,b,c   Fang, Jiming ^b   Chan, Crystal ^a   Alter, David A ^a,b,d   Bronskill, Susan E ^a,b   Hill, Michael D ^e   Manuel, Douglas G ^b,f,g   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,d   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 84867557616     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31826aac9b     Document Type: Article

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