Importance Whether recent changes in demographic characteristics and therapeutic
technologies have altered stroke outcomes remains unknown. Objective To determine …

The expected growth of stroke burden in Korea in early 2000s led to the initiation of a
government-funded clinical research project with the goal of development and …

Background Persons with pre-existing disabilities represent over one-third of acute stroke
presentations, but account for a far smaller proportion of those receiving endovascular …

Stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability in Korea. Patients who
experience stroke require adequate management throughout the acute to subacute and …

Purpose: Community-dwelling stroke survivors have various unmet needs for rehabilitative
management, but there is a lack of in-depth investigations on common health problems after …

Objective To describe functional changes after inpatient stroke rehabilitation using the
Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC), an assessment measure sensitive to …

Background The economic burden of stroke on the healthcare system has been previously
described, but sex differences in healthcare costs have not been well characterized. We …

The societal cost of ischemic stroke is known to be high, an estimated nearly $50 billion (US
dollars [USD]) per year in the United States. 1 This sum includes the hospitalization for acute …

Background This is the first real-world study to estimate the direct costs and indirect costs of
first-ever ischaemic stroke with 1-year follow-up in China, based on a nationally …

Background Ordinal/shift analyses of ordered measures like the modified Rankin Scale
(mRS) are underused as primary trial outcomes for neurological disorders–despite statistical …