Visualizing Acute Stroke Data to Improve Clinical Outcomes

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2015, Pages e170-e172

  Kamal, Noreen ^a   Smith, Eric E ^b   Stephenson, Caroline ^d   Choi, Philip M C ^e   Goyal, Mayank ^c   Hill, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e BOX HILL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

acute stroke; quality improvement; tissue type plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY DELAY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TRENDS;

ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84941026341     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.009517     Document Type: Article

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