Recent patterns and predictors of neurological mortality among hospitalized patients in Central Ghana

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue , 2016, Pages 217-224

  Sarfo, Fred Stephen ^a,b   Awuah, Dominic Otto ^b   Nkyi, Clara ^b   Akassi, John ^a,b   Opare Sem, Ohene K ^a,b   Ovbiagele, Bruce ^c  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ghana; Neurology admissions; Outcomes; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BELL PALSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST METASTASIS; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CELLULITIS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSGLYCEMIA; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GLIOMA; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; MYELITIS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROSEPSIS; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GHANA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84959455712     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.02.041     Document Type: Article

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