Open AccessRace/Ethnicity and Location of Stroke Mortality
Author(s) -
Theodore Wein,
Melinda A. Smith,
Lewis B. Morgenstern
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.30.8.1501
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , stroke (engine) , gerontology , demography , nursing homes , race (biology) , affect (linguistics) , cause of death , mortality rate , surgery , nursing , disease , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , botany , sociology , anthropology , engineering , biology
Stroke community surveillance projects often focus on hospital data rates. We hypothesized that not including strokes which occurred in nursing homes or at home would differentially affect race/ethnic stroke rates.
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