Fig 1.
Outcomes of patients discharged with ischemic stroke and reasons for readmission.
a There is no missing data on mortality at discharge within this cohort.
Fig 2.
Kaplan-Meier failure functions for hospital readmission after AIS.
* 2 readmitted patients excluded due to missing length of stay data.
Table 1.
Top 10 diagnosis codes for readmission within first 30 days of discharge vs. after 30 days.
Table 2.
Baseline patient and hospital characteristics shown after stratification by recurrent admission from any cause, MACE events and AIS vs. no recurrent admission.
Table 3.
Association between variables and time to recurrent admission after AIS hospitalization (using a Weibull accelerated failure time model) in univariate analysis (Model 1) and after controlling for patient age, sex, NIHSS category, LOS, discharge disposition, hospital bed size, location/teaching status, and ownership (Model 2).