Journal article
Receptionist rECognition and rEferral of PaTients with Stroke (RECEPTS) study - protocol of a mixed methods study.
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BACKGROUND: As the first point of contact for patients and witnesses of stroke, General Practice receptionists can be instrumental in deciding the urgency of clinical contact. Despite the considerable complexity of this task, reception staff are not clinically trained. Minimising the time taken to access thrombolysis is crucial in acute stroke as treatment must be initiated within 4.5 hours of the onset, and the earlier the better, to achieve the best outcomes. Research suggests that patients...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1471-2296-15-91
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National Institute for Health Research
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- BMC family practice Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 91
- Publication date:
- 2014-05-12
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1471-2296
- ISSN:
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1471-2296
- Source identifiers:
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469126
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- English
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- pubs:469126
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- 2014-06-20
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- Sheppard et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- © 2014 Sheppard et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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