A study of stroke patients treated in a non-intensive stroke unit or in general medical wards.
Acta Med Scand
; 208(1-2): 81-5, 1980.
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ABSTRACT
To study the representativity and outcome of patients admitted to a stroke unit (SU) (n = 269), a comparison was made with all stroke patients treated in general medical wards (GMW) (n = 225) in the same hospital during two years. There was no difference between the patient groups regarding sex, age, previous cardiovascular diseases or neurological deficit on admission. As expected, more diagnostic examinations were performed in the SU than in the GMW where a diagnosis of ill-defined stroke was very frequent. A higher frequency of lumbar puncture with CSF spectrophotometry would have increased considerably the number of specific diagnoses in the GMW. Acute and, particularly, secondary prophylactic treatment was more often given in the SU. There was no difference between the patient groups regarding mortality or length of hospital stay.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos Cerebrovasculares
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acta Med Scand
Ano de publicação:
1980
Tipo de documento:
Article