Stroke Risk After Emergency Department Treat-and-Release Visit for a Fall

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Stroke Risk After Emergency Department Treat-and-Release Visit for a Fall

Jed H. Kaiser, BS, Cenai Zhang, MS, Hooman Kamel, MD, MS, Babak B. Navi, MD, MS, Junaid Razzak, MD, PhD, and Ava L. Liberman, MD all9188@med.cornell.eduAuthor Info & Affiliations

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https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.046988

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BACKGROUND:

Previous cohort studies of hospitalized patients with a delayed diagnosis of ischemic stroke found that these patients often had an initial emergency department (ED) diagnosis of a fall. We sought to evaluate whether ED visits for a fall resulting in discharge to home (ie, treat-and-release visits) were associated with increased short-term ischemic stroke risk.

METHODS:

A case-crossover design was used to compare ED visits for falls during case periods (0–15, 16–30, 31–90, and 91–180 days before stroke) and control periods (equivalent time periods exactly 1 year before stroke) using administrative data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project on all hospital admissions and ED visits across 10 states from 2016 to 2020. To identify ED treat-and-release visits for a fall and patients hospitalized for acute ischemic stroke, we used previously validated International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification codes. Odds ratios and 95% CIs were calculated using conditional logistic regression.

RESULTS:

Among 90 592 hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke, 5230 (5.8%) had an ED treat-and-release visit for a fall within 180 days before their stroke. Patients with an ED treat-and-release visit for a fall were older (mean age, 74.7 [SD, 14.6] versus 70.8 [SD, 15.1] years), more often female (61.9% versus 53.4%), and had higher rates of vascular comorbidities than other patients with stroke. ED treat-and-release visits for a fall were significantly more common in the 15 days before stroke compared with the 15-day control period 1 year earlier (odds ratio, 2.7 [95% CI, 2.4–3.1]). The association between stroke and a preceding ED treat-and-release visit for a fall decreased in magnitude with increasing temporal distance from stroke.

CONCLUSIONS:

ED treat-and-release visits for a fall are associated with significantly increased short-term ischemic stroke risk. These visits may be opportunities to improve stroke diagnostic accuracy and treatment in the ED.

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