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about 8,000severe stroke a year are registered in the Valencian Community with highprobability of brain damage
ObservatoryEpidemiological brain injury, constituted for a year by FIVAN Foundationand the higher public health research centre, pose newobjectives and published the first results after a year of work.
valencia, June2012- fruit of the agreement for a year between the two entities, havecarried out various studies and publications presented to the communityscientific, with the objective to know the evolution of the ictus, thebrain anoxias and moderate head (TEC) injuries andserious in recent years in the Valencian Community. To this end they havereviewed all admissions in hospitals of acute of the AgencyValencia health between 2002 and 2009 and cases of stroke have been selected(excluding the transient and mild) and the TEC with loss of knowledgemost of an hour.
in the picture,Isabel Muñoz (Director of the CSISP) and Javier Chirivella (President of the)(Foundation FIVAN) in the renewal of the agreement.
someconclusions of the different estudio:
– whileTEC revenues have declined, especially in young men, theincome by ictus and anoxia has increased in the period 2002-2009.
– in numbersabsolute, the patients discharged after stroke grew 32.6% (from)of 5989 in 2002 to(7942 in 2009).
-mortalityhospital-acquired has remained stable, while they have increased thetransfers to middle and long stay centres.
-rates ofhospitalizations for severe stroke passed from 107,9 per 100,000 population(all the age groups and sex) in 2002, 121,9 per 100,000 population in 2009.
-this increaseThis is partially attributable to changes in the age structure of the population(greater proportion of older people) but there has also been areal increase in the incidence of stroke.
reportfull of this study will be made public in the CSISP on 15 June of2012, with the presentation of the book brain injury epidemiologyOccurred in the community Valencian(pediatric age and adults). An approach to the impact ”. In wordsof Dr. Xirivella, FIVAN President, this information isessential to promote specific health policies, awarenesssocial and clinical and economic management of this collective approaches ”.
any of theobjectives for the coming year will be to develop the research projectto learn about the use of health services and outcomes(mortality, readmissions) trials of the patients discharged high after injurycerebral vascular or traumatic.
