Geographic Disparities in Case Fatality and Discharge Disposition Among Patients With Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

ABSTRACT: Background We evaluate nationwide trends and urban-rural disparities in case fatality (in-hospital mortality) and discharge dispositions among patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Methods and Results In this repeated cross-sectional study, we identified adult patients (≥18 years of age) with primary ICH from the National Inpatient Sample (2004-2018). Using a series of survey design Poisson regression models, with hospital location-time interaction, we report the adjusted risk ratio (aRR), 95% CI, and average marginal effect (AME) for factors associated with ICH case fatality and discharge dispositions. We performed a stratified analysis of each model among patients with extreme loss of function and minor to major loss of function. We identified 908 557 primary ICH hospital

SUBMITTER: Bako AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10227287 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature