Under-reporting of socioeconomic status of patients in stroke trials: Adherence to consort principles

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2920-2922

  Magin, Parker ^b,f   Victoire, Anousha ^b,f   Zhen, Xi May ^c   Furler, John ^d   Pirotta, Marie ^d   Lasserson, Daniel S ^e   Levi, Christopher ^a   Tapley, Amanda ^f   Van Driel, Mieke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f General Practice Training Valley to Coast   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ischemic attack; Randomized controlled trials; Socioeconomic factors; Stroke; Transient

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REHABILITATION CARE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE;

FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84888337283     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002414     Document Type: Article

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