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SUBMITTER: Hong KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2937160 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hong Keun-Sik KS Saver Jeffrey L JL Kang Dong-Wha DW Bae Hee-Joon HJ Yu Kyung-Ho KH Koo Jaseong J Han Moon-Ku MK Cho Yong-Jin YJ Park Jong-Moo JM Lee Byung-Chul BC
Stroke 20100701 8
<h4>Background and purpose</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed patient-level data from the outcome registry of 1254 consecutive patients ...[more]