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. 2018 Jul 11;3(4):361–368. doi: 10.1177/2396987318787695

Table 1.

Patient and disease characteristics, process indicators and outcome indicators registered in the DASA.


Acute ischaemic stroke (n = 55,854)

Intracranial haemorrhage (n = 7727)
2015 2016 p-value 2015 2016 p-value
Number of patients 28,820 27,034 4145 3582
Number of hospitals 78 80 79 75
Patient and disease characteristics
Age in years (median, IQR) 74 (64–82) 74 (64–82) 0.92 76 (65–83) 76 (66–84) 0.17
Male sex (n,%) 14,555 (52.4) 13,839 (52.6) 0.62 1997 (51.8) 1802 (52.5) 0.61
Onset-to-door time in minutes (median, IQR) 171 (74–544) 175 (74–570) 0.42 138 (61–430) 130 (61–408) 0.45
Process indicators
Intravenous thrombolysis (n, %) 5338 (20.4) 5299 (21.7) <0.001
Door-to-needle time in minutes (median, IQR) 27 (20–37) 25 (19–35) <0.001
Intra-arterial thrombectomy (n, %) 755 (3.1) 985 (4.1) <0.001
Door-to-groin time in minutes (median, IQR) 66 (41–99) 64 (35–95) 0.02
Outcome indicators
In-hospital mortality (n, %) 1310 (5.0) 1161 (4.8) 0.19 995 (25.4) 863 (26.4) 0.35
Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) scorea
No symptoms, mRS 0 (n, %) 2144 (17.8) 2294 (19.8) <0.001 89 (7.1) 87 (7.5) <0.001
Mild symptoms, mRS 1–2 (n, %) 6178 (51.2) 5893 (51.0) 478 (37.9) 459 (39.6)
Moderate to severe symptoms, mRS 3-5 (n, %) 2783 (23.1) 2608 (22.5) 478 (37.9) 414 (35.8)
Death, mRS 6 (n, %) 953 (7.9) 769 (6.6) 215 (17.1) 198 (17.1)

IQR: interquartile range. P-values < 0.05 are printed bold.

amRS was not obtained of patients that died during admission.