Published January 15, 2015 | Version v1
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Characteristics of the stroke alert process in a general hospital

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  • 1. Winthrop University Hospital

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The organized stroke alert is critical in quickly evaluating and treating patients with acute stroke. The purpose of this paper was to further understand how this process functions in a moderate sized general hospital by exploring the effects of patient location and time of day on the pace of evaluation and the eventual outcome of evaluation.

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