[Data bank on post-stroke patients: experience in organization and use]

The bank of clinical data concerning restorative therapy of neurological patients was characterized. These data were included in computer program "System of management of data bank on poststroke patients" which was elaborated in the department of V.M.Bekhterev's St-Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute. Information obtained in process of answering special questionnaire formed this data bank which included social-, demographic, anamnestic, clinical-anatomical data, information about both initial functional state of the patient and its dynamics as well as therapeutic methods applied and follow-up data about the patients which entered the hospital repeatedly, 450 case reports were accumulated in the bank. Practice proved informative value of the bank's materials and its suitability for statistic analysis. Data bank may be used for scientific and statistic purposes as well for control and prognosis of efficiency of treatment of the patients with consequences of cerebral strokes.