Factors related to the sensitivity of emergency medical service impression of stroke

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 387-392

  Gropen, Toby I ^a   Gokaldas, Reshma ^b   Poleshuck, Rebecca ^c   Spencer, Jeffrey ^d   Janjua, Nazli ^e   Szarek, Michael ^c   Brandler, Ethan S ^c   Levine, Steven R ^c  

^a OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Northwell Health   (United States)

^e Asia Pacific Comprehensive Stroke Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical service; Organized stroke care; Pre hospital stroke care; Scales; Stroke delivery; Stroke diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 84902976894     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2013.864359     Document Type: Review

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