A time series evaluation of the FAST national stroke awareness campaign in England

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Flynn, Darren ^a   Ford, Gary A ^a   Rodgers, Helen ^a   Price, Christopher ^b   Steen, Nick ^a   Thomson, Richard G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WANSBECK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TIME FACTOR;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906070970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104289     Document Type: Article

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