Years of Optimum Health Lost Due to Complications After Acute Ischemic Stroke
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Years of optimum health lost due to complications after acute ischemic stroke: disability-adjusted life-years analysis.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 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. METH...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.109.576066