Table 1.

Participant characteristics at discharge from rehabilitation.

Characteristic	Non-fallers (n=23)	Fallers (n=23)	p value
Age (years)	64.8 (12.6)	65.4 (10.4)	0.96
Number of women	10 (43)	9 (39)	0.76
Time post-stroke (days)	47.4 (19.2)	53.4 (19.6)	0.14
Length of in-patient rehabilitation stay (days)	30.2 (11.1)	35.9 (13.7)	0.17
Type of stroke
Ischemic	20 (87)	18 (78)	0.74
Hemorrhagic	2 (9)	3 (13)
Transforming to hemorrhagic	1 (4)	2 (9)
National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (score)	2.7 (2.0)	3.0 (2.9)	0.96
Berg Balance Scale (0–56 points)	51.2 (3.4)	49.1 (4.1)	0.079

NOTE: Values are means (standard deviation) for continuous or ordinal variables, and counts (% rounded to the nearest integer) for categorical variables. The p value is for the Mann-Whitney U test, chi-square or Fisher’s exact test comparing non-fallers to fallers at discharge.