Table 3.

Survival analysis of rural patients who had a stroke as compared with urban patients

Time to death	Urban	Rural	P value	Model*
	n (%)	n (%)		HR	95% CI
Up to 7 days	1750 (8.8)	769 (9.4)	0.081	0.98	0.79 to 1.21
8–30 days	1242 (6.2)	491 (6)	0.608	1.02	0.87 to 1.20
31–90 days	745 (3.7)	265 (3.2)	0.055	0.88	0.73 to 1.06
91–180 days	526 (2.6)	202 (2.5)	0.439	0.88	0.69 to 1.11

*Models were adjusted for age, sex, year of admission, state, type of stroke, ability to walk on admission, socioeconomic status, interhospital transfers, in-hospital stroke and stroke unit admission.