Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator and outcomes for acute ischemic stroke

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 154-160

  Nasr, Deena M ^a   Brinjikji, Waleed ^a   Cloft, Harry J ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

acute ischemic stroke; Epidemiology; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG USE; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STROKE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 84872378766     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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