Population
788 patients with stroke or TIA registered in the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry at a single Victorian…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1 year
Authors
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May inform readmission risk stratification in stroke/TIA; leaves open whether targeting comorbidities reduces rates.
Linking clinical registry data with hospital databases is feasible and reveals that 42% of stroke/TIA patients are readmitted within 1 year, driven largely by comorbidities and prior ED visits.
Kilkenny et al. (2015) studied this question.
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