Open AccessReducing the Delay Between Stroke Onset and Hospital Arrival: Is It an Achievable Goal?
Author(s) -
Reeves Mathew J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.112.002477
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , stroke (engine) , thrombolysis , epidemiology , biostatistics , emergency medicine , population , arrival time , acute stroke , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , engineering , environmental health , transport engineering , tissue plasminogen activator
In this issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association ( JAHA), Addo and colleagues[1][1] report on prehospital delay by using data from the South London Stroke Registry, a high-quality population-based acute stroke registry that collected data on more than 2000 first-time stroke events over