Invasiveness and Clinical Outcomes of Off-Hour Admissions in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Invasiveness and Clinical Outcomes of Off-Hour Admissions in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Background: Whether time of hospital admission—during or outside regular working hours—affects functional outcome in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is unestablished as previous analyses have focused on mortality only. We here investigate whether on- versus off-hour hospital admission in ICH is associated with levels of invasiveness and clinical outcomes., Background: Whether time of hospital admission—during or outside regular working hours—affects functional outcome in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is unestablished as previous analyses have focused on mortality only. We here investigate whether on- versus off-hour hospital admission in ICH is associated with levels of invasiveness and clinical outcomes. Methods: Based on the UKER registry (NCT03183167) we grouped ICH-patients according to on- versus off-hour hospital admission. Primary outcome measures was functional outcome after 3 months using the modified Rankin scale (mRS) dichotomized into favorable (mRS = 0-3) and unfavorable (mRS = 4-6)., admin,