Table 4.

Articles about cost related to care post-stroke

First Author Year of publication Country	Objectives	Methods				Results
		Design and GRADE LEVEL [32]	Participants	Instruments	Calculated stroke costs
Oliva-Moreno, 2013 (Spain) [42]	Estimate the social cost of non-professional (informal) care provided to survivors of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)	Prospective economic study 2 + GRADE	329,544 people	2008 Survey on Disability, Independent Living and Dependency (EDAD-08)	Indirect costs calculating each hour of care at 12.71 euros	The estimated hours of informal care provided in 2008 amounted to 852 million €
Skolarus, 2016 (EEUU) [43]	To investigate the annual cost of stroke caregiving	Cross sectional study 2 + GRADE	892 patients	National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative survey of Medicare beneficiaries	Indirect costs calculating each hour of care at 6,55 euros/hour	Average annual cost for caregiving for an elderly stroke survivor was €8712 22.3 h/week
Joo H, 2017 (EEUU) [3]	To describe the Economic burden of informal caregiving associated with stroke	Systematic Review 1 + GRADE	10,129 patients 6 articles	2010 Health and Retirement Study, data on non-institutionalized adults aged ≥ 65 years	Indirect costs calculating each hour of care at 10,54 euros/hour	€4332 per year (95% CI: €1685-€6514) for informal caregiving