Cost and utility in the diagnostic evaluation of stroke

CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 436-440

  Burke, James F ^a  

^a U M Clinical Scholars Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARM WEAKNESS; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE THROMBUS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SPEECH DISORDER; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84898611546     PISSN: 10802371     EISSN: 15386899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.CON.0000446112.05291.35     Document Type: Review

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