Impact of emergency medical services stroke routing protocols on primary stroke center certification in california

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3584-3586

  Schuberg, Sam ^a   Song, Sarah ^b   Saver, Jeffrey L ^c   Mack, William J ^a,c   Cen, Steven Y ^a   Sanossian, Nerses ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute; Certification; Health policy; Prehospital emergency care; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

CERTIFICATION; HEALTH POLICY; PREHOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE; STROKE, ACUTE;

CALIFORNIA; CERTIFICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE;

EID: 84889255886     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.000940     Document Type: Article

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