Table 1.
Incidence (95% CI) of mortality, recurrence, and hospital readmission by index subtype
| Characteristic | Etiologic Stroke Subtype | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thrombotic (N=481) | Cardioembolic (N=197) | Lacunar (N=183) | Intracerebral Hemorrhage (N=85) | Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (N=41) | |
| Mortality | |||||
| 30-day | 7.5 (5.5–10.3) | 12.8 (8.8–18.3) | 1.1 (0.3–4.4) | 36.5 (27.3–47.7) | 24.4 (13.9–40.6) |
| 1-year | 19.6 (16.3–23.4) | 27.6 (21.9–34.6) | 9.6 (6.1–15.0) | 45.4 (35.4–56.6) | 26.9 (15.9–43.3) |
| Recurrent stroke | |||||
| 30-day | 1.6 (0.7–3.2) | 2.3 (0.9–6.0) | 1.1 (0.3–4.4) | - | - |
| 1-year | 7.9 (5.7–11.0) | 6.5 (3.6–11.9) | 6.5 (3.6–11.4) | - | - |
| Hospital readmission | |||||
| All-cause readmission | |||||
| 30-day | 14.4 (11.5–18.0) | 22.0 (16.5–29.1) | 12.9 (8.8–18.8) | 9.3 (4.0–21.0) | 18.8 (8.9–37.1) |
| 1-year | 53.2 (48.6–57.9) | 65.6 (58.2–72.8) | 41.2 (34.3–48.8) | 42.8 (30.6–57.4) | 50.0 (34.3–68.1) |
| CVD-related readmission* | |||||
| 30-day | 1.8 (0.9–3.6) | 6.6 (3.7–11.6) | 0.6 (0.1–3.9) | 0 | 0 |
| 1-year | 13.3 (10.4–17.0) | 23.4 (17.5–31.0) | 5.9 (3.2–23.2) | 9.4 (3.6–23.2) | 6.8 (1.7–24.6) |
*
Primary ICD-9 discharge diagnosis codes 390-429, 440-459, 745-747