Fig. 1

A: Presentation of the temporal order from inclusion of patients (N = 1141) via written informed consent (N = 231) to inclusion in the telephone survey (N = 228) is presented. It should be noted that the analysis of long-term follow-up by mRS included 228 patients inclusive of those who died in the meantime (mRS = 6), whereas the analysis of HRQoL included 206 patients without 22 patients with mRS = 6. B: Representation of the proportion of patients included at the telephone survey (N = 228) on admission, at discharge, and at timepoint of telephone survey according to the stroke severity measured by the modified Rankin Scale from 0 (light gray) to 5 (dark gray) on admission and at discharge as well as 0 to 6 at telephone survey