Sentence examples for stroke clinics from inspiring English sources

Video conferencing is used to link staff and patients remotely, and has been of particular use in connecting consultants working in multidisciplinary teams, such as cancer networks or stroke clinics.

The development of specialist stroke clinics and acute stroke units has also improved outcomes after a stroke.

Neurologists and stroke physicians might have speedier access to imaging facilities than other specialties and some have dedicated joint transient ischaemic attack and stroke clinics shared with vascular surgeons as well as regular multidisciplinary team meetings.

In some instances, this apparent contrast among study results was explained by the different origin of the patients included; eg, when patients from stroke clinics are compared with patients from memory clinics, the specificity of relationship between neuroimaging and functional data is much weaker in the latter group (Rockwood et al 2006).

Recent studies suggest that there is a large undiagnosed population of "later-onset" Fabry patients based on systematic screening in hemodialysis, cardiac, and stroke clinics [Bekri et al., 2005; Chimenti et al., 2004; Nakao et al., 1995, 2003; Rolfs et al., 2005; Sachdev et al., 2002; Spada et al., 2006].

This led to a lively discussion and a subsequent visit to a stroke clinic.

The results from the stroke clinic group (group b) are listed in Table 3.

These patients were initially seen in the stroke clinic and referred for a CEA based on their carotid ultrasound results.

This was a retrospective study of 100 patients referred to the stroke clinic and 100 patients referred for carotid endarterectomy (CEA).

Table 3 Stroke clinic results (group b)   Elective ultrasound result     Positive (≥50%) Negative (<50%)   Result of reinterpretation Positive (≥50%) 32568888 Negative (<50%) 0 104 104   32 160 192.

When the data for the stroke clinic group (group b) were unblinded and compared to the sonographer's report, it was noted that there were seven ultrasound reports in the stroke clinic group which indicated greater than 50% stenosis in at least one vessel based on velocity criteria, yet no drawing was made on the diagram.