Community Hospital-based Stroke Programs: North Carolina, Oregon, and New York. I: Goals, objectives, and data collection procedures.
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Community Hospital-based Stroke Programs: North Carolina, Oregon, and New York. I: Goals, objectives, and data collection procedures.
In order to assess the impact of variations in stroke care on outcomes, and to make geographic comparisons, the three Community Hospital-Based Stroke Programs in North Carolina, Oregon, and New York, aggregated their data on 4,132 hospitalized stroke patients. Complete demographic data or "Major Profile" were obtained on 2,390 (57.8%) of the 4,132 stroke patients. This includes those patients o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.17.2.276