Effectiveness of hospital functions for acute ischemic stroke treatment on in-hospital mortality: Results from a nationwide survey in Japan

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 522-528

  Iwamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Hashimoto, Hideki ^a   Horiguchi, Hiromasa ^b   Yasunaga, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute care; In hospital mortality; Instrumental variable estimation; Ischemic stroke; Stroke care unit

Indexed keywords

AGED; CERTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERTIFICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84938828768     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20140181     Document Type: Article

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