Table 2.
Patients’ medical complications during acute care, length of hospitalization, rehabilitation after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation and costs (n = 1,073)
| Dementia (n = 138) | Non-Dementia (n = 935) | p | |
| Consciousness at hospital admission: | 0.275 | ||
| fully awake | 116 (84.1) | 842 (90.0) | |
| drowsy | 18 (13.0) | 84 (9.0) | |
| unconscious | 1 (0.7) | 8 (0.9) | |
| missing | 3 (2.2) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Complications during acute care | 6 (4.4) | 66 (7.1) | 0.017 |
| missing | 1 (0.7) | 0 (0) | |
| Total days in hospitala | 18 (11) | 22 (18) | 0.001 |
| Days in acute carea | 6 (3) | 6 (5) | 0.018 |
| Days in inpatient rehabilitationa | 13 (10) | 15 (14) | 0.002 |
| Rehabilitation after dischargeb | 0.001 | ||
| home rehabilitation | 29 (21.0) | 315 (33.7) | |
| day rehabilitation | 6 (4.4) | 103 (11.0) | |
| special accommodation with rehabilitation | 26 (18.8) | 109 (11.7) | |
| no need | 44 (31.9) | 213 (22.8) | |
| missing | 33 (23.9) | 195 (20.8) | |
| Cost of inpatient rehabilitationa: | |||
| in SEK | 92,183 (67,364) | 106,365 (99,274) | 0.001 |
| in US$ | 10,607 (7,752) | 12,239 (11,424) |
Categorical variables presented as n (%). Pearson Chi-square test performed, as appropriate. aNumerical variables presented as median (interquartile range). Mann-Whitney U test was used because of skewed distribution. bThree months after stroke, patients reported the types of rehabilitation/support that they had received after hospitalization. Their answers included: home rehabilitation, day rehabilitation, special accommodation with rehabilitation and “I did not need further rehabilitation or support”.