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In-hospital strokes account for 6.5-15% of all strokes and are associated with worse functional and mortality outcomes compared to community-onset strokes.
This review highlights that in-hospital strokes have worse outcomes than community-onset strokes and discusses strategies to improve care.
Warrants heightened clinical vigilance for in-hospital strokes; leaves open randomized trials of targeted care pathways.
In-hospital strokes, that is new strokes occurring among hospitalized patients, account for 6.5-15% of all strokes. Compared to community-onset stroke patients, in-hospital stroke patients tend to have worse functional and mortality outcomes. This review addresses the characteristics of acute in-hospital ischemic strokes, reasons these patients have worse outcomes compared to community-onset stroke patients, and future steps to improve outcomes.
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Chen et al. (2018) conducted a review in Acute in-hospital ischemic strokes. In-hospital strokes account for 6.5-15% of all strokes and are associated with worse functional and mortality outcomes compared to community-onset strokes.
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