Veterans hospitalized for hip fracture repair may be discharged to one of several rehabilitation settings, but it is not known what factors influence postsurgical discharge setting. The purpose of the study was to examine the patient, facility, and market factors that influence the choice of postsurgical discharge setting. Using a retrospective cohort design, we linked 11,083 veterans who had h...

BACKGROUND While hip fractures are an important cause of disability, dependency and death in older adults, the benefit of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation for people who have sustained hip fracture has not been demonstrated. METHODS Systematic review of randomized controlled trials which compare co-ordinated multi-disciplinary rehabilitation with usual orthopaedic care in older people who ha...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The organization of poststroke care will be a major challenge in coming years. We aimed to assess hospital disposition after stroke and its associated factors in clinical practice. METHODS All cases of stroke from 2006 to 2010 were identified from the population-based Stroke Registry of Dijon, France. Demographic features, risk factors, and prestroke treatments were rec...

objectives:  stroke is a major event in one's life, and patients will inevitably require the use of coping strategies in order to try to reestablish acceptable life equilibrium. due to the extensive role that nurses can be active members in the patient's rehabilitation plan, the mauk model is a model that focuses on stroke patients. for each stage of this model,  mauk has developed ap...

Background: Geriatric patients are typically un derrep resen ted in studies on th e functional o u tc o m e of rehabili tation after stroke. Moreover, m os t geriatric stroke patients d o probably no t participate in intensive rehabili tation program s as offered by rehabili tation centers. As a result, very few studies have described the successfulness of geriatric stroke rehabili tation in nu...

Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 1000169 J Clin Trials ISSN: 2167-0870 JCTR, an open access journal *Corresponding author: Ann Gill Taylor, EdD, RN, FAAN, Norris Professor of Nursing and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia School of Nursing, P.O. Box 800782, Charlottesville VA 22908-0782, USA, Tel: 434-92...

Colonization with multidrug-resistant germs, in particular methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing bacteria (ESBL), is an emerging threat in early neurological rehabilitation. This study examined whether colonization with ESBL bacteria had deteriorating effects on neurological rehabilitation patients because of contact precautions (CP). ...

Background: Geriatric patients are typically un derrep resen ted in studies on th e functional o u tc o m e of rehabili tation after stroke. Moreover, m os t geriatric stroke patients d o probably no t participate in intensive rehabili tation program s as offered by rehabili tation centers. As a result, very few studies have described the successfulness of geriatric stroke rehabili tation in nu...