Table 3.
Average admission rate of AIS patients with NIHSS ≥10 per hospital and year.
| Daytime of hospital admission, N (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroke service level | Working hours | Non-working hours | Early shift | Late shift | Night shift |
| 08:00–16:59 | 17:00–07:59 | 07:00–14:59 | 15:00–22:59 | 23:00–06:59 | |
| Stroke center | 103 (58) | 75 (42) | 89 (50) | 67 (38) | 22 (12) |
| Hospital with regional SU | 55 (61) | 35 (39) | 49 (54) | 32 (36) | 9 (10) |
| Hospital with local SU | 33 (62) | 20 (38) | 29 (55) | 19 (36) | 5 (9) |
| Hospital w/o SU | 5 (63) | 3 (38) | 5 (63) | 2 (25) | 1 (13) |
| Overall annual numbers | 2,764 (61) | 1,742 (39) | 2,420 (54) | 1,632 (36) | 454 (10) |
Daytime is stratified into working vs. non-working hours and into a three-shift system. Presented are the average annual numbers of patients and percentages per hospital within the respective time intervals. Averages are calculated from 7 stroke centers, 8 regional SUs, 34 local SUs, and 93 hospitals without a SU. NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; SU, stroke unit.