Predictors of acute stroke mimics in 8187 patients referred to a stroke service

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Merino, José G ^a,b,c   Luby, Marie ^a   Benson, Richard T ^a,d   Davis, Lisa A ^a   Hsia, Amie W ^a,d   Latour, Lawrence L ^a   Lynch, John K ^a   Warach, Steven ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins Community Physicians   (United States)

^c SUBURBAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; diagnosis; emergency medicine; stroke mimics

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; AGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); ODDS RATIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885363122     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.04.018     Document Type: Article

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