Characteristics of Academic Medical Centers and Ischemic Stroke Outcomes

Characteristics of academic medical centers and ischemic stroke outcomes.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Data supporting the efficacy of stroke center characteristics are limited. METHODS A questionnaire detailing stroke treatment practices was sent to 42 academic medical centers in the University Health Systems Consortium. In-hospital mortality of all emergency department admissions for ischemic stroke at these institutions was evaluated in a database of discharge abstrac...

Advertising by academic medical centers.

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centers have increased their use of advertising to attract patients. While the content of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements (ads) has been studied, to our knowledge, advertising by academic medical centers has not. We aimed to characterize advertising by the nation's top academic medical centers. METHODS We contacted all 17 medical centers named...

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.

Utilization of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator for ischemic stroke at academic medical centers: the influence of ethnicity.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to measure the overall rate of usage of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) for ischemic stroke at academic medical centers, and to determine whether ethnicity was associated with usage. METHODS Between June and December 1999, 42 academic medical centers in the United States each identified 30 consecutive ischemic stroke cases. Medical records were reviewe...

Vitamin D and Ischemic Stroke

Introduction: stroke is the most important brain disease. Stroke leads to a reduction in bone density, altered calcium homeostasis, and an increase in hip fractures. Some recent studies show effects of vitamin D on stroke and vice versa. The purpose of this study was to determine of serum vitamin D levels in patients with acute stroke. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we compared t...