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Hospital discharge data were found to be fairly specific but insensitive in the reporting of acute ischemic stroke and thrombolysis, providing misleading indications about both quantity and quality of acute ischemic stroke hospital care. Efforts to improve coding accuracy should precede the use of hospital discharge data to measure hospital performances in acute ischemic stroke care.
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