Predictors of Discharge to Home after Acute Stroke in Bedside Evaluation:

Does Age Affect the Factors?

Abstract

[Purpose] We examined the effect of factors in bed-side evaluation on discharge to home after acute stroke, and examined them across age groups. [Subjects] Subjects were 111 patients after acute stroke. [Methods] Patients were divided into 2 groups according to age, age≥75, 60 patients, age<75, 51 patients. We evaluated consciousness, active extension of all fingers in synergy, eating function, sub-items of the Barthel Index (eating and self-care) at bed-side. The evaluations were conducted within 2 days of onset of stroke. [Results] Finger extension and eating function were the factors of discharge to home in the group aged<75, and finger extension was the only factor of discharge to home in the group aged≥75. [Conclusion] The results of this study suggest that active extension of all fingers in synergy is factor of discharge to home across age groups.