The clinical evidence shows that patients with a first episode of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are increasingly old and with greater comorbidity with a recognized impact over mortality. The prediction of the outcome of ICH is not only crucial in the emergin attention to identify those patients with favorable criteria that can benefit from possible treatments; but also after hospital discharge, in primary care where the prediction should facilitate the organization and management of a wide variety of resources: familiar, health and social welfare. Even though there are different scales that predict mortality, these are not sufficiently useful in choosing a treatment or do not provide sufficient data to the family to decide. Due to the characteristics of the population with ICH described in these works, it seems useful to propose a prognostic index (ICHCat) to identify the variables associated to its incidence and mortality and that, in addition, to make adjustments in the comparisons of the survival between different series of patients or different treatment modalities in primary care.
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Death all causes
Timeframe: Within 5 years follow-up after episode ICH