Figure 1.
Flow chart of the computation process for lifelong duration of different disability levels and long-term care.
Table 1.
Comparison of frequency distributions of stroke patients hospitalized under the National Health Insurance (NHI), at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), and a cross-sectional sample at the stroke clinics and rehabilitation wards.
Figure 2.
Dynamic changes in functional needs for patients with severe disabilities after stroke.
Figure 3.
The lifetime health-adjusted survival of stroke patients.
The survival probability (longdash line) multiplied by the proportion of patients with no disability (dotted line) over time after diagnosis results in the health-adjusted survival curve (solid line), which can be summed to estimate the expected life years without functional disabilities for stroke patients (shaded area).
Table 2.
Mean (standard error, in years) duration of subjects with different levels and types of functional disabilities, as measured by the Barthel Index (BI) and stratified by stroke subtypes.
Table 3.
Estimation of life expectancy (LE, 95% confidence interval (CI), in years), EYLL (expected years of life loss, with standard error of mean in parenthesis), mean lifelong duration (95% CI, in years) of each functional disability state as measured by the Barthel Index (BI) and EYLD (expected years of living with disability) stratified by different stroke subtypes.