Temporal Trends in Acute Stroke Management
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Temporal trends in acute stroke management.
he benefit of intravenous recombinant tissue-type plas-minogen activator (rt-PA) for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke is well established. Unfortunately, the rates of rt-PA use among US patients with ischemic stroke remain quite low. Previously, our group published the rate of rt-PA use among ischemic stroke patients within the large Premier database, which is a 15% sampling of US hospita...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.113.001457