Monash transient ischemic attack triaging treatment: Safety of a transient ischemic attack mechanism-based outpatient model of care

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2936-2941

  Sanders, Lauren M ^a,b   Srikanth, Velandai K ^a,b   Jolley, Damien J ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^a   Psihogios, Helen ^b   Wong, Kitty ^a   Ramsay, David ^b   Phan, Thanh G ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

outpatient; stroke; transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MODEL; MONASH TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK TRIAGING TREATMENT MODEL; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; STROKE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84868208074     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.664060     Document Type: Article

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