The impact of early specialist management on outcomes of patients with in-hospital stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Manawadu, Dulka ^a,b   Choyi, Jithesh ^a   Kalra, Lalit ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; WARFARIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IN HOSPITAL STROKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SPECIALIZATION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84929056191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104758     Document Type: Article

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