Selective admission into stroke unit and patient outcomes: a tale of four cities

Bokhari, Farasat AS; Wellwood, Ian; Rudd, Anthony G; Langhorne, Peter; Dennis, Martin S; Wolfe, Charles DA

doi:10.1186/2191-1991-4-1

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Table 3 Difference in case mix and patient characteristics by SU and GMW

From: Selective admission into stroke unit and patient outcomes: a tale of four cities

	London		Kaunas		Dijon		Florence
	Pre	Post	Pre	Post	Pre	Post	Pre	Post
GCS	2.014 ^a	-0.157	-2.531 ^a	-0.416	0.225	-0.086	-0.432	-0.057
	0.000	0.731	0.000	0.150	0.217	0.770	0.527	0.938
Swallow test	-0.120 ^c	-0.035	0.123 ^a	0.008	-0.185 ^a	-0.017	-0.071	-0.036
(1/0, 1 if fail)	0.058	0.668	0.007	0.913	0.000	0.765	0.458	0.701
Age	0.192	0.800	9.912 ^a	3.327 ^b	-4.483 ^a	-0.796	-4.720 ^c	-0.676
	0.917	0.714	0.000	0.050	0.003	0.612	0.063	0.769
Age square	-66.163	131.689	1,398.868 ^a	406.985 ^c	-579.525 ^a	-102.443	-616.334 ^c	-89.409
	0.785	0.646	0.000	0.100	0.004	0.635	0.078	0.782
Male	0.041	-0.038	-0.117 ^b	0.016	0.002	-0.003	0.073	-0.014
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.527	0.624	0.050	0.868	0.970	0.958	0.504	0.902
Age*Male	3.959	-1.331	-4.488	2.435	-1.957	-0.791	3.068	-1.349
	0.389	0.791	0.279	0.699	0.636	0.864	0.698	0.871
Stroke type: CI	0.130 ^a	-0.021	-0.006	-0.009	-0.017	0.009	0.045	-0.010
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.006	0.659	0.866	0.847	0.549	0.742	0.563	0.911
Prestroke - AF	-0.038	-0.005	0.168 ^a	0.077	0.063	0.015	-0.065	-0.027
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.436	0.933	0.001	0.384	0.178	0.784	0.452	0.755
Prestroke - DM	-0.045	-0.071	0.004	0.016	-0.006	-0.003	0.009	-0.004
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.416	0.355	0.911	0.821	0.892	0.944	0.922	0.964
Prestroke - HT	0.127 ^b	-0.049	-0.039	0.047	-0.044	-0.000	-0.105	-0.008
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.047	0.492	0.491	0.496	0.414	0.996	0.327	0.939
Prestroke - MI	-0.010	-0.002	0.008	0.040	-0.049	-0.022	-0.062	-0.029
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.782	0.959	0.854	0.613	0.189	0.556	0.441	0.709
Needed help last 2wks	-0.079	0.412	0.226 ^a	0.711	-0.145 ^a	-0.132 ^a	-0.081	-0.014
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.123	0.318	0.000	0.176	0.001	0.001	0.355	0.888
Able to walk	0.043	-0.067			0.203 ^a	0.115 ^c
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.509	0.407			0.000	0.072
Lift both arms	0.108 ^c	0.002	-0.463 ^a	-0.449 ^a	0.079	-0.016
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.099	0.980	0.000	0.000	0.147	0.799
Home alone	-0.000	0.014	0.109 ^b	0.071	-0.069	0.000
(1/0: 1 if true)	1.000	0.855	0.018	0.323	0.192	0.995
Home w./ others	0.065	-0.040	-0.211 ^a	-0.075	0.054	0.014
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.320	0.616	0.000	0.315	0.336	0.820
Supportive living	-0.086 ^a	0.002			-0.019	-0.006
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.004	0.937			0.474	0.819
LT hospital care	0.010	0.009			-0.059 ^b	-0.009
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.593	0.569			0.017	0.805
Home unknown	0.010	0.015	0.103 ^a	0.004	0.093 ^a	0.001
(1/0: 1 if true)	0.593	0.112	0.000	0.827	0.008	0.971

Difference and p-value: Table provides difference (SU-GMW) in covariates (p-value listed below the difference).
Pre: Difference and p-value before adjusting by propensity score.
Post: Difference and p-value after applying weights based on propensity score.
Significance: Superscripts a, b, c indicate if p-value is less that.01,.05 and.10 respectively.
Abbreviations: Stroke Unit (SU); General Medical Ward (GMW); Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS); Cerebral Infarction (CI); Atrial Fibrillation (AF); Diabetes Mellitus (DM); Hypertension (HT); Myocardial Infarction (MI); Long Term (LT).

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ISSN: 2191-1991

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