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SUBMITTER: O'Brien EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523738 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Brien Emily C EC Wu Jingjing J Zhao Xin X Schulte Phillip J PJ Fonarow Gregg C GC Hernandez Adrian F AF Schwamm Lee H LH Peterson Eric D ED Bhatt Deepak L DL Smith Eric E EE
Journal of the American Heart Association 20170203 2
<h4>Background</h4>Healthcare resources vary geographically, but associations between hospital-based resources and acute stroke quality and outcomes remain unclear.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Using Get With The Guidelines-Stroke and Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care data, we examined associations between healthcare resource availability, stroke care, and outcomes. We categorized hospital referral regions with high-, medium-, or low-resource levels based on the 2006 national per-capita availability ...[more]