Awareness of stroke risk after TIA in Swiss general practitioners and hospital physicians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Streit, Sven ^a   Baumann, Philippe ^a   Barth, Jürgen ^b   Mattle, Heinrich P ^c   Arnold, Marcel ^c   Bassetti, Claudio L ^c   Meli, Damian N ^a   Fischer, Urs ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SWITZERLAND; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WORK EXPERIENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84942446976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135885     Document Type: Article

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