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Table 3 Patients characteristics for baseline and the re-audit

From: Dysphagia screening after acute stroke: a quality improvement project using criteria-based clinical audit

 

Baseline n = 88

Re-audit

n = 51

P value*

Male, n (%)

51 (57)

24 (47)

0.293

Age

  

0.101

 Median

79

83

 

 Interquartile range

66–88

76–87

 

 Range

39–96

23–100

 

ICD-10 Code, n (%)

  

0.268

 I61- Non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage

12 (14)

4 (8)

 

 I63-Cerebral infarction

49 (56)

25 (49)

 

 I64-Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

 G45.9-Transient cerebral ischemic attack, unspecified (TIA)

27 (31)

22 (43)

 

Stroke severity–NIHSS

   

 Median

2

1

0.007

 Interquartile range

1–6

0–2

 

 Range

0–35

0–22

 

Stroke severity–NIHSS, n (%)

  

0.140

 Mild 0–8

62 (70)

44 (80)

 

 Moderate 9–16

8 (10)

1 (2)

 

 Severe > 18

8 (10)

3 (5)

 
  1. *Mann Whitney U test for continuous variables and Pearson Chi-Square test or exact test for categorical variables. Information on NIHSS was not available for 10 persons at baseline and seven persons at re-audit