Quality of care and outcomes for in-hospital ischemic stroke findings from the national get with the guidelines-stroke

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 231-238

  Cumbler, Ethan ^a   Wald, Heidi ^a   Bhatt, Deepak L ^b   Cox, Margueritte ^c   Xian, Ying ^c   Reeves, Mathew ^d   Smith, Eric E ^e   Schwamm, Lee ^f   Fonarow, Gregg C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Outcome assessment (health care); Quality indicators; Quality of health care; Registries; Stroke; Thrombolytic therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893669175     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/Strokeaha.113.003617     Document Type: Article

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