Clinical Predictors of Accurate Prehospital Stroke Recognition

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1513-1517

  Oostema, J Adam ^a   Konen, John ^a   Chassee, Todd ^a,b   Nasiri, Mojdeh ^a   Reeves, Mathew J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kent County Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; stroke, acute

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERY ELDERLY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 84938526609     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.008650     Document Type: Article

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