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Racial Disparities in Intravenous Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Use Persist at Primary Stroke Centers

BACKGROUND: Primary stroke centers (PSCs) utilize more recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt‐PA) than non‐PSCs. The impact of PSCs on racial disparities in rt‐PA use is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS: We used data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 2004 to 2010, limited to states that pu...

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Autores principales: Aparicio, Hugo J., Carr, Brendan G., Kasner, Scott E., Kallan, Michael J., Albright, Karen C., Kleindorfer, Dawn O., Mullen, Michael T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26467999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.001877