Length of Stay, Hospital Costs and Mortality Associated With Comorbidity According to the Charlson Comorbidity Index in Immobile Patients After Ischemic Stroke in China: A National Study

• Main Authors: Hongpeng Liu (Author), Baoyun Song (Author), Jingfen Jin (Author), Yilan Liu (Author), Xianxiu Wen (Author), Shouzhen Cheng (Author), Stephen Nicholas (Author), Elizabeth Maitland (Author), Xinjuan Wu (Author), Dawei Zhu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background  In this study, we examined the length of stay (LoS)-predictive comorbidities, hospital costs-predictive comorbidities, and mortality‐predictive comorbidities in immobile ischemic stroke (IS) patients; second, we used the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) to assess the association between...