Treatment of ischemic stroke. Lessons from clinical trials.

Abstract:

:The tools and methods of epidemiology, particularly the clinical trial, help guide the clinical practice of medicine. Dr Gorelick reviews the results of major clinical trials for prevention of transient cerebral ischemia and atherothrombotic stroke and assesses the effect of these findings on treatment.

journal_name

Postgrad Med

journal_title

Postgraduate medicine

authors

Gorelick PB

doi

10.1080/00325481.1989.11704499

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-12-01 00:00:00

pages

107-14, 117-8

issue

8

eissn

0032-5481

issn

1941-9260

journal_volume

86

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