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. 2013 Oct 8;8(10):e76997. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076997

Table 4. Emergency ambulance patient characteristics according to pre-stroke dependency.

High dependency (n=149) Not high dependency (n=1853) p value
Pre-stroke mRS median (IQR) [missing] 4 (4-4) [24] 0 (0-1) [441] <0.01
Care home resident pre-stroke (%) [missing] 99 (67%) [10] 70 (4%) [267] <0.01
Age mean (sd) [missing] 84 (9) [0] 75 (12) [19] <0.01
Male gender (%) [missing] 42 (28%) [0] 883 (48%) [3] <0.01
Previous history of stroke or TIA (%) [missing] 73 (49%) [4] 541 (28%) [101] <0.01
Lacunar stroke (LACS) (%) 21 (14%) 472 (26%) <0.01
Partial anterior circulation stroke (PACS) (%) 37 (25%) 524 (28%) 0.22
Total anterior circulation stroke (TACS) (%) 64 (43%) 484 (26%) <0.01
Posterior circulation stroke (POCS) (%) 5 (3%) 172 (9%) <0.01
Undetermined clinical classification (%) 22 (15%) 201 (11%) 0.38
Ischaemic stroke (%) [missing] 126 (85%) [6] 1608 (87%) [57] 0.45
Known onset time (%) 82 (55%) 1251 (68%) 0.02
Onset –admission hours median (IQR) [missing] 1 (1-2) [68] 1 (1-4) [610] <0.01
Inpatient mortality (%) 41 (28%) 287 (16%) <0.01