...W. Steinke; S. Meairs; M. Hennerici Stroke data banks have been instrumental in helping us to clarify stroke etiology and in the investigation of clinical-topographic correlations. For these purposes they have relied upon results from noninvasive vascular and cardiac methods, including extra...

...Michael Brainin Stroke data banks (SDBs) used for clinical research are between traditional case series and population-based studies. They can serve a multitude of purposes: estimating the burden of disease treated in one or several centers, calculating the recruitment rates for clinical trials...