title: Mortality of stroke patients treated with thrombolysis: analysis of nationwide inpatient sample.
abstract: The authors performed a retrospective cohort comparison using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 1999 through 2002 of acute ischemic stroke admissions. Mortality was compared based on the use of thrombolysis. Hospital mortality was significantly greater for the thrombolysis cohort (10.1% vs 5.8%) as was the rate of secondary intracranial hemorrhage (4.2% vs 0.4%). US community experience in the use of thrombolysis has higher rates of complications and mortality than in controlled clinical trials.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA. rdubinsky@safetyresearch.com
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dubinsky
authors.forename: Sue-Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D015996:Survival Rate; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator