Why Patients Delay Their First Contact with Health Services After Stroke? A Qualitative Focus Group-Based Study.

BACKGROUND:Despite national and local French information campaigns, when acute stroke occurs, waiting times before calling mobile emergency medical services (EMS) to receive appropriate treatment (i.e. thrombolysis) and decrease the risk of physical disability, remain long. We aimed to identify the...

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Main Authors: Alice Le Bonniec, Julie Haesebaert, Laurent Derex, Sylvie Porthault, Marie Préau, Anne-Marie Schott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4898830?pdf=render