Abstract
We evaluated the outcome, discharge rate to other hospitals, and length of hospital stay in 281 cases of acute brain infarction admitted within the first week after onset among 368 cases of ischemic stroke from April 1995 to March 1997. The introduction rate of acute brain infarction from clinics and other hospitals to our hospital was 65%. The inhospital mortality was 4%. The discharge rate to other hospitals was 38%, and the discharge rate to the patient's own home was 58%. The discharge rate to other hospitals and length of hospital stay were, respectively, 21% and26 days in lacunar brain infarction, 42% and 30 days in atherothrombotic brain infarction, and 56% and 39 days in cardioembolic brain infarction. The proportion of patients with a length of hospital stay in excess of 60 days was 8%. The main cause of a long hospital stay was complications. The length of hospital stay was longer and the discharge rate to other hospitals was higher in cardioembolic brain infarction than in other kinds of brain infarction.
