Acute Hospital, Community, and Indirect Costs of Stroke Associated With Atrial Fibrillation: Population-Based Study [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions—
In our population study, AF-stroke was associated with substantially higher total, acute hospital, nursing home, and general practitioner costs per patient. Targeted programs to identify AF and prevent AF-stroke may have significant economic benefits, in addition to health benefits.

Source: Stroke - November 24, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Hannon, N., Daly, L., Murphy, S., Smith, S., Hayden, D., Ni Chroinin, D., Callaly, E., Horgan, G., Sheehan, O., Honari, B., Duggan, J., Kyne, L., Dolan, E., Williams, D., Wiley, M., Kelly, P. J. Tags: Embolic stroke, Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention, Risk Factors for Stroke Clinical Sciences Source Type: research