Rural versus urban academic hospital mortality following stroke in Canada

Fleet, Richard; Bussières, Sylvain; Korika Tounkara, Fatoumata; Turcotte, Stéphane; Légaré, France; Plant, Jeff; Poitras, Julien; Archambault, Patrick; Dupuis, Gilles

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191151

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Rural versus urban academic hospital mortality following stroke in Canada

Published in PLoS ONE • Jan 31, 2018

Authors:

Richard Fleet

Sylvain Bussières

Fatoumata Korika Tounkara

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in Canada. While stroke care has improved dramatically over the last decade, outcomes following stroke among patients treated in rural hospitals have not yet been reported in Canada. OBJECTIVES: To describe variation in 30-day post-stroke in...

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Stroke (engine)

Medicine

Demography

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