Routine echocardiography in the management of stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A systematic review and economic evaluation

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Transient Ischemic Attack 95%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 74%
• Echocardiography 72%
• Systematic Reviews 63%
• Stroke 59%
• Transesophageal Echocardiography 22%
• Thrombosis 15%
• Practice Management 12%
• Pathology 9%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 9%
• Uncertainty 9%
• Economics 7%
• Economic Models 7%
• Bibliographic Databases 6%
• Mitral Valve Prolapse 6%
• Patent Foramen Ovale 6%
• Bibliographies 6%
• Recurrence 5%
• Quality-Adjusted Life Years 5%
• Insurance Benefits 5%
• Routine Diagnostic Tests 4%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 4%
• Aneurysm 4%
• MEDLINE 4%
• Nursing 4%
• Decision Making 4%
• Research Design 4%
• Comorbidity 3%
• Meta-Analysis 3%
• Sensitivity and Specificity 3%
• Therapeutics 3%
• Technology 3%
• Guidelines 3%
• Databases 3%
• Health 2%

Social Sciences

• stroke 100%
• management 41%
• evaluation 39%
• economics 36%
• diagnostic 30%
• costs 17%
• pathology 14%
• clinician 13%
• uncertainty 7%
• current management 7%
• adverse events 6%
• life years 6%
• gold standard 6%
• comorbidity 6%
• cause 5%
• economic model 5%
• bibliography 5%
• questionnaire 5%
• patent 4%
• health 4%
• decision-making process 4%
• resources 4%
• evidence 4%
• nursing 3%
• expert 3%
• lack 2%
• literature 2%