Investigation and study on the associated factors of hospitalization delay in stroke patients / 中国医师进修杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the associated factors of hospitalization delay in stroke patients. Methods Verified questionnaires were used to investigate all of the 179 stroke patients. The patients were divided into two groups according to prehospital time within or after 6 h. The associated factors of hospitalization delay were analyzed. Results The average prehospital time among 179 patients was (26.2±0.1) h, the median time was 7.5 h. There were significant differences in previous cardiac disease, distance between stroke onset site to hospital, convulsion or disorders of consciousness onset, first visit in emergency room directly or not, arriving at hospital by ambulance or not, time on ambulance between stroke onset site to hospital, time on route to hospital between the two groups (P < 0.05). Logistic regression showed the following factors were related to hospitalization delay long distance between the site where stroke onset occurred and hospital, long time in out-patient room. Conclusions The phenomena of hospitalization delay is especially eommon and there is a low treatment rate of thrombolysis therapy in iscbemie stroke. The main reason of hospitalization delay lies in ignorance of relevant risk factors, clinical symptoms of stroke and using emergence system sufficiently.