The One-Year Attributable Cost of Poststroke Aphasia

Little is known about the contribution of aphasia to the cost of care for patients who experience stroke.We retrospectively examined a cohort of South Carolina Medicare beneficiaries who experienced ischemic stroke in 2004 to determine the attributable cost of aphasia. Univariate analyses were used to compare demographic, comorbidity, and severity differences between individuals with poststroke aphasia and those without aphasia. Differences in...