A prospective cohort study of patients with transient ischemic attack to identify high-risk clinical characteristics

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 92-100

  Perry, Jeffrey J ^a,c   Sharma, Mukul ^g   Sivilotti, Marco L A ^d   Sutherland, Jane ^c   Worster, Andrew ^f   Émond, Marcel ^e   Stotts, Grant ^c   Jin, Albert Y ^d   Oczkowski, Wieslaw J ^g   Sahlas, Demetrios J ^g   Murray, Heather E ^d   MacKey, Ariane ^h   Verreault, Steve ^h   Wells, George A ^b   Stiell, Ian G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Epidemiology and Community Medicine   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f Division of Emergency Medicine   (Canada)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Stroke; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893707181     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.003085     Document Type: Article

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