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Published in final edited form as: J Hosp Med. 2008 May;3(3):184–192. doi: 10.1002/jhm.313

TABLE 4.

Physician Specialty and Secondary Outcomes of Ischemic Stroke

Characteristic	Unadjusted Analysis			Adjusted Ratio^*
Characteristic	Neurologist	Generalist	P value	Ratio (95% CI)	P value
LOS (days), n=25,094
Standard Analysis	6.6	8.0	<0.001	0.92 (0.88–0.96)	<0.001
Group-treatment analysis	7.2	7.1	0.80	1.06 (0.94–1.19)	0.35
Total Charges, n=21,812
Standard Analysis	$16,600	$18,700	0.01	0.95 (0.91–1.00)	0.05
Group-treatment analysis	$17,800	$16,900	<0.001	1.26 (1.01–1.57)	0.04

^*

Analyses adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, urgency status, illness severity class, and institutional annual acute stroke case volume.