Prehospital delay in acute stroke and TIA

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 669-674

  Faiz, Kashif Waqar ^a,b   Sundseth, Antje ^a,b   Thommessen, Bente ^b   Rønning, Ole Morten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NORWAY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE PATIENT; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY; TIME; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACUTE MEDICINE-OTHER; COMMUNICATIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPILSPSY; GUIDELINES; NEUROLOGY; PERIPHERAL; PREHOSPITAL CARE; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84880699290     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201543     Document Type: Article

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