Erlangen Stroke Project – ESPro

The Erlangen Stroke Registry (ESPro) is an ongoing population-based patient registry focusing on stroke and vascular dementia. ESPro is providing population-based representative data on epidemiology, course of disease, population-based health care delivery as well as on health economics.

Founded in 1994 ESPro is the oldest and with 8.200 included cases and about 1.500 yearly follow-up visits the largest stroke patient registry in Germany. ESPro is providing population-based representative data on epidemiology (incidence, time-trends and long-term survival) [1-4], on the lomg-term course of disease (risk-factors, cognitive function, recurrence, complications) [5-13], population-based health care delivery [14-17], as well as data on health economics (patterns of care, resource utilization, cost of illness) [18-23].
ESPro is part of the National Information System of the Federal Health Monitoring (Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes) and is funded by the Federal German Government.

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