Years of Optimum Health Lost Due to Complications After Acute Ischemic Stroke
Author(s) -
KeunSik Hong,
Jeffrey L. Saver,
DongWha Kang,
HeeJoon Bae,
KyungHo Yu,
Jaseong Koo,
MoonKu Han,
YongJin Cho,
JongMoo Park,
ByungChul Lee
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.109.576066
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , population , pediatrics , disability adjusted life year , complication , surgery , burden of disease , disease , emergency medicine , mechanical engineering , environmental health , engineering
Complications after stroke increase disability or death. The disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) metric, developed by the World Health Organization to measure the global burden of disease, integrates both mortality and disability. Widely used in population-level data analyses, it has not been applied to individual patient-level data captured in outcome registries.
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