Impact of Implementing Evidence-Based Acute Stroke Interventions on Survival: The South London Stroke Register

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Addo, Juliet ^a,c   Crichton, Siobhan ^a   Bhalla, Ajay ^b   Rudd, Anthony G ^a,b   Wolfe, Charles D A ^a,c   McKevitt, Christopher ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; REGISTER; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE UNIT; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ACUTE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876701124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061581     Document Type: Article

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