Factors Associated with Early Hospital Arrival in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Factors associated with early arrival may vary according to the characteristics of the hospital. We investigated the factors associated with early hospital arrival in two different stroke centers located in Korea and Japan.

Methods

Consecutive patients with ischemic stroke arrived hospital within 48 hours of onset between January 2011 and December 2012 were identified and the clinical and time variables were retrieved from the prospective stroke registries of Severance Hospital of Yonsei University Health System (YUHS; Seoul, Korea) and National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC; Osaka, Japan). Subjects were dichotomized into early (time from onset to arrival ≤4.5 hours) and late (>4.5 hours) arrival groups. Univariate and multivariate analyses

SUBMITTER: Song D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460335 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature