International Comparison of Poststroke Resource Use: A Longitudinal Analysis in Europe

David B. Matchar, Marcel Bilger, Young K. Do, Kirsten Eom

Publikation: Wissenschaftliche FachzeitschriftOriginalbeitrag in FachzeitschriftBegutachtung

Abstract

Background

Long-term costs often represent a large proportion of the total costs induced by stroke, but data on long-term poststroke resource use are sparse, especially regarding the trajectory of costs by severity. We used a multinational longitudinal survey to estimate patterns of poststroke resource use by degree of functional disability and to compare resource use between regions.
Methods

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multinational database of adults 50 years and older, which includes demographic information about respondents, age when stroke first occurred, current activity of daily living (ADL) limitations, and health care resource use in the year before interview. We modeled resource use with a 2-part regression for number of hospital days, home nursing hours, and paid and unpaid home caregiving hours.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)2256 - 2262
FachzeitschriftJournal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Jahrgang24
Ausgabenummer10
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2015

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