A Priliminary Study on In-hospital Outcome of Stroke in a Tertiary Centre of South Bengal, India
Sumit Chatterjee
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and JNM Hospital, Kalyani, India.
Paramita Bhattacharya
Department of General Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India.
Manas Ghosh
Department of General Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India.
Amitava Acharyya
Independent Public Health Consultant, Howrah, West Bengal, India.
Kaushik Ghosh *
Department of General Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This single centre descriptive observational design study was undertaken in a tertiary referral centre of South Bengal, India in an attempt to assess the outcome of stroke according to various risk factors and Glasgow coma scale at the time of admission. A better outcome was considered as Glasgow outcome scale score of 4 and 5 while poor outcome was considered as Glasgow outcome scale score of 3 or less.
Keywords: Stroke, Glasgow coma scale, morbidity, descriptive study