Rate of utilization and determinants of withdrawal of care in acute ischemic stroke treated with thrombolytics in USA

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1094-1100

  Qureshi, Adnan I ^a   Adil, Malik M ^a   Suri, Muhammed Fareed K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital costs; ischemic stroke; mortality; thrombolysis; withdrawal of care

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WITHDRAWAL OF CARE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MALE; PATIENT ACUITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888091623     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a95db4     Document Type: Article

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