Health care providers' effect on long-term mortality after the first-ever stroke: application of shared frailty survival models.
Navideh NikmohammadiNeda GilaniS Morteza ShamshirgaranParvin SarbakhshPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2022)
Despite considering the known demographic and clinical prognostic factors, health care providers' effect on the patients' survival after stroke was still significant. This may be due to the existing difference between two hospitals in facilities, management, coordination, and efficiency of treatment.