We examined the medical records of 125 patients with cerebral infarction who transferred from acute phase hospitals to our hospital, as to whether they contain information about clinical category, magnetic resonance image (MRI), magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), cervical ultrasonography, echocardiography, and PT-INR, the days between onset of stroke and transfer, and whether they were accompanied with copied film. We compared the data among departments in charge and among hospitals. The proportions of listed clinical category (96.5%) and patients accompanied with film (72.0%) in the Department of Neurology were significantly higher than those in the Department of Neurosurgery (50%/25%) and in the Department of Internal Medicine (60%/10%). The proportions of Holter electrocardiography (ECG) (44.7%) and transesophageal echocardiography (37.6%) in the Department of Neurology were significantly higher than those in the Department of Neurosurgery (10%/0%). MRI (90.6%), MRA (84.7%), and cervical ultrasonography (85.9%) in the Department of Neurology were significantly higher than those in the Department of Internal Medicine (65%/40%/60%). There was no significant difference in the days between onset of stroke and transfer among the 3 groups. Clinical category (93.9%), cervical ultrasonography (83.7%), echocardiography (75.6%), patients accompanied with film (64.2%) were significantly higher and the days between onset of stroke and transfer (20.5±11.0) was significantly lower in 6 hospitals from which many patients came than the other 14 hospitals (44.4%/59.3%/48.1%/18.5%/34.3±22.2). But even among these 6 hospitals, there was a significant difference in patients accompanied with films, MRA, cervical ultrasonography, Holter ECG, echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and the days between onset of stroke and transfer. Acute phase hospitals should be expected to enrich their medical records in order to share medical data with rehabilitation hospitals.
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