Table 1 Factors associated with stroke outcome disability and discharge destination in the literature

ADL scores

FIM

- Initial FIM, age [8, 9]

BI

- Initial BI [14]

- Initial NIHSS, age, premorbid disability, DM, infarct volume [15]

- Trunk Impairment Scale, static sitting balance [16]

Discharge destination

- Age, incontinence [18]

- initial FIM, age [17]

- premorbid social support, FIM bowel, age, CMSA leg, type of premorbid accommodation [19]

- initial MMSE, premorbid living with relatives [8]

- discharge BI, LOS, age [20]

- Initial FIM, age, male gender [4]

- swallowing disorder [21]