Rapid systematic review of readmissions costs after stroke

Table 3 Stroke readmission costs by geographic region. *

Geographic Region	n	Mean, $	Median, $	Range	References
Sweden	7	3639	1860	400 − 12,081	[41, 42, 50, 54, 59,60,61]
UK	3	11,651	5604	1203-28,417	[36, 56, 63]
Rest of Europe	9	1892	1274	104–6099	[31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 43,44,45, 48]
Australia	4	905	828	120–1404	[55, 57, 58, 62]
Taiwan	2	3545	3545	-	[40, 47]
Canada	3	3630	1649	650 − 10,574	[29, 46, 53]
USA	4	9722	8836	4017-17,198	[25, 35, 49, 51]

UK, United Kingdom; USA, United States of America
*Includes readmission costs for all-cause readmissions and readmissions related to stroke recurrence and/or complications, encompassing different readmission categories such as per surviving patient, per patient, or per surviving patient at the end of the study, irrespective of the follow-up duration. Also, whenever the same study gave various readmission costs categories only the per surviving patient readmission cost was accounted for

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