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The economics of treating stroke as an acute brain attack

Currently, treatments for ischemic stroke focus on restoring or improving perfusion to the ischemic area using thrombolytics. The increased hospitalization costs related to thrombolysis are offset by a decrease in rehabilitation costs, for a net cost savings to the healthcare system. However, early...

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Autores principales: Bogousslavsky, Julien, Paciaroni, Maurizio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19775424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-7-51