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Table 1 Characteristics of patients identified in the Psychiatric Case Registry versus patients not identified in the Psychiatric Case Registry

From: The economic impact of mental healthcare consumption before and after stroke in a cohort of stroke patients in the Netherlands: a record linkage study

  

PCR+ (n = 357)

 

PCR- (n = 1028)

p-value

Demographic characteristics

n.

 

n.

  

 Mean age in years at stroke onset (SD*)

357

69.0 (14.0)

1028

71.3 (12.1)

0.051

 Gender (% male)

357

48.2

1028

49.1

0.762

 Living with partner (%)

357

42.0

1028

42.4

0.903

 Hospital admission (% clinical)

357

75.1

1028

68.6

0.022

 Hospitalization days (SD)

320

19.2 (20.6)

856

15.2 (13.1)

0.000

 Discharge location

     

 Nursing home (%)

357

35.9

1028

33.7

0.376

 Home (+ rehabilitation) (%)

357

52.1

1028

54.0

0.631

 Rehabilitation centre (%)

357

4.2

1028

5.4

0.392

Stroke characteristics

     

 Stroke type (Ischaemic,%)

357

82.1

1028

85.3

0.148

 MRSa score (SD)

331

3.3 (1.2)

938

3.2 (1.2)

0.103

 History of TIAb (% yes)

357

9.5

1028

11.2

0.298

 Hypertension, history/now (% yes)

357

47.1

1028

51.3

0.143

 Smoking, history/now (% yes)

357

34.4

1028

28.2

0.063

 Alcohol use, history/now (% yes)

357

26.9

1028

21.4

0.072

 Diabetes, history/now (% yes)

357

17.8

1028

17.1

0.568

  1. *SD standard deviation
  2. aMRS Modified Ranking Scale
  3. bTIA Transient Ischemic Attack
  4. Non-parametric Mann-Whitney test or Chi-Square test used to test for significant differences between PCR+ and PCR-
  5. Significant at the 0.05 level