{"title":"Incidence, hospital admission rate, and health outcomes following stroke in Ayrshire and Arran.","authors":"H Alexander, C Bugge, S Hagen, E Russell","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To describe the incidence, hospital admission rate and health outcomes following stroke in Ayrshire and Arran.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Community based study with prospective identification of stroke patients from a random sample of general practices stratified by geographical area and practice size.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Ayrshire and Arran Health Board area, West of Scotland.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>All stroke patients from the 24 general practices in the sample.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Barthel Index, Canadian Neurological Scale, Mini-mental State Examination, SF-36.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The incidence of stroke was 2.33 per 1000 for both first and recurrent events and 78% of people were admitted to hospital following their stroke. Those admitted to hospital had significantly poorer outcomes in the early post-stroke period (first six months).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study provides recent figures for the incidence and hospital admission rates following stroke. We speculate that our rates may be typical for the NHS in Scotland at present.</p>","PeriodicalId":75896,"journal":{"name":"Health bulletin","volume":"58 5","pages":"408-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Objective: To describe the incidence, hospital admission rate and health outcomes following stroke in Ayrshire and Arran.
Design: Community based study with prospective identification of stroke patients from a random sample of general practices stratified by geographical area and practice size.
Setting: Ayrshire and Arran Health Board area, West of Scotland.
Subjects: All stroke patients from the 24 general practices in the sample.
Main outcome measures: Barthel Index, Canadian Neurological Scale, Mini-mental State Examination, SF-36.
Results: The incidence of stroke was 2.33 per 1000 for both first and recurrent events and 78% of people were admitted to hospital following their stroke. Those admitted to hospital had significantly poorer outcomes in the early post-stroke period (first six months).
Conclusion: Our study provides recent figures for the incidence and hospital admission rates following stroke. We speculate that our rates may be typical for the NHS in Scotland at present.