The triage of stroke rehabilitation.
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In this paper we describe the use of triage to select patients for a trial in which a comparison was made of the effectiveness of a stroke unit and medical units in the rehabilitation of acute stroke. Completing the triage for hospital admission of stroke enabled an estimate to be made of the size of a stroke unit per unit of population.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of epidemiology and community health
دوره 35 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981