Emergency Medical Services-Based Community Stroke Education
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Emergency medical services-based community stroke education: pilot results from a novel approach.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although previous studies using mass media have demonstrated successful public stroke awareness campaigns, they may have been too costly for smaller communities to implement. The goal of this study was to investigate if a novel emergency medical services (EMS) -sponsored community awareness campaign could increase public stroke awareness. METHODS This was a pre- and pos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.108.532762