A community-based study of stroke code users in Northern Portugal;Avaliação da via verde do acidente vascular cerebral no Norte de Portugal: Caracterização e prognóstico dos utilizadores

Acta Medica Portuguesa

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-122

  Moutinho, Mariana ^a   Magalhães, Rui ^b   Correia, Manuel ^c   Silva, M Carolina ^b  

^a Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Portugal; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PORTUGAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 84878861177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16460758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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