Centralising acute stroke care within clinical practice in the Netherlands: lower bounds of the causal impact

Table 6 stroke incidence per hospital^a

	All stroke patients	Ischemic stroke patients
Centralized system
University Medical Center, Groningen	429	361
Ommelander hospital group, Groningen^b	136	100
Refaja hospital, Stadskanaal	123	112
Decentralized system
Martini hospital, Groningen	380	332
Medical Center, Leeuwarden	527	469
Hospital the Tjongerschans, Heerenveen	237	203
Hospital Nij Smellinghe, Drachten	265	223
Antonius hospital, Sneek	230	203
Treant care group, location Scheper, Emmen^c	319	273
Wilhelmina hospital, Assen	266	216
Diaconessenhuis hospital, Meppel	224	202
Hospital Bethesda, Hoogeveen	83	70

^aNumber were taken from an online data repository of the National Health Care Institute (https://www.zorginstituutnederland.nl/) containing data from October 2014 till September 2015
^bThe Ommelander care group, Groningen consists of two community hospital both part of the central system
^cTreant care group, location Scheper, Emmen did not participate in the observational study performed in 2010 (9)

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