Years of optimum health lost due to complications after acute ischemic stroke: disability-adjusted life-years analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Complications after stroke increase disability or death. The disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) metric, developed by the World Health Organization to measure the global burden of disease, integrates both mortality and disability. Widely used in population-level data analyses, it has not been applied to individual patient-level data captured in outcome registries.

Methods

We analyzed patient-level data from the outcome registry of 1254 consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke enrolled between September 1, 2004, and August 31, 2005, in South Korea. For each subject, we calculated DALY lost due to the qualifying stroke and then analyzed additional DALY lost due to complications after stroke.

Results

For 1233 patients with available 3-month

SUBMITTER: Hong KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2937160 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature