Clinical characteristics, in-hospital management, and outcomes of patients with in-hospital vs. community-onset ischaemic stroke: a hospital-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of high-quality national-level data on in-hospital ischaemic stroke hinders the development of tailored strategies for this subgroup's identification, treatment, and management.

Methods

We analyzed and compared clinical characteristics, in-hospital management measures, and outcomes, including death or discharge against medical advice (DAMA), major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs), disability at discharge, and in-hospital complications between in-hospital and community-onset ischaemic stroke enrolled in the Chinese Stroke Center Association registry from August 2015 to December 2022.

Findings

The cohort comprised 14,948 in-hospital and 1,366,898 community-onset ischaemic stroke patients. In-hospital ischaemic stroke exhibited greater stroke severit

SUBMITTER: Gu HQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10544278 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature