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Poststroke Care. Chronicles of a Neglected Battle

Gustavo Saposnik MD, MSc^* and Moira K. Kapral MD, MSc

From the Stroke research Unit (G.S.), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada; the Mobility Program (G.S.), Clinical Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Toronto, Canada; the Department of Medicine and Health Policy (M.K.K.), Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Women’s Health Program, University Health Network, Canada; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) (M.K.K.), Toronto, Canada.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: saposnikg{at}smh.toronto.on.ca.

Key words: stroke • mortality • outcome research • rehospitalization • Health policy • health services research • hospital admissions • cerebrovascular disease

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