The effect of telestroke systems among neighboring hospitals: more and better? The Madrid Telestroke Project

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1768-1773

  Martínez Sánchez, Patricia ^a   Miralles, Ambrosio ^b   Sanz de Barros, Rosa ^b   Prefasi, Daniel ^a   Sanz Cuesta, Borja E ^a   Fuentes, Blanca ^a   Ruiz Ares, Gerardo ^a   Martínez Martínez, Marta ^b   Miñano, Elena ^a   Arévalo Manso, Juan José ^a   Correas Callero, Elisa ^a   Cruz Herranz, Andrés ^a   Díez Tejedor, Exuperio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INFANTA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Door to needle times; Outcomes; Stroke; Telemedicine; Telestroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84939879625     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7419-3     Document Type: Article

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