A population-based study of hospital care costs during 5 years after transient ischemic attack and stroke

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3343-3351

  Luengo Fernandez, Ramon ^a   Gray, Alastair M ^a   Rothwell, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost; Cost analysis; Stroke; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE;

EID: 84870907857     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.667204     Document Type: Article

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