Unequal access to treatment with intravenous alteplase for women with acute ischemic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2610-2612

  De Ridder, Inger ^a   Dirks, Maaike ^a   Niessen, Louis ^b,c   Dippel, Diederik ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Stroke; Thrombolytic therapy; Time to treatment

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME TO TREATMENT;

STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884500345     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002263     Document Type: Article

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