Reliability of brain CT evaluation by stroke neurologists in telemedicine

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 332-338

  Puetz, Volker ^a   Bodechtel, Ulf ^a   Gerber, Johannes C ^a   Dzialowski, Imanuel ^a   Kunz, Alexander ^a,b   Wolz, Martin ^a,e   Hentschel, Hjoerdis ^a,e   Schultheiss, Thorsten ^a   Kepplinger, Jessica ^a   Schneider, Hauke ^a   Wiedemann, Barbel ^c   Wojciechowski, Claudia ^a   Reichmann, Heinz ^a   Gahn, Georg ^a,d   Von Kummer, Ruediger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Department of Neurology   (Germany)

^e Elblandklinikum Meissen ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BELL PALSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EARLY ISCHEMIC CHANGES; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTOXICATION; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIGRAINE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; STROKE PATIENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TELECONSULTATION; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873614741     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31827f07d0     Document Type: Article

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