National Trends in Transfer of Patients with Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage: An Analysis of 12-Year Nationwide Data

The guidelines of the American Hospital Association encourage transferring intracerebral hemorrhage patients from community hospitals to centers with stroke expertise. However, research on the differences in outcomes between transferred intracerebral hemorrhage hospitalizations and directly admitted hospitalizations have been largely limited to small single-center studies. In this study, we explored the national trends in transferred...