Purpose: The aim of this work was to survey the contemporary facilities of early post-stroke rehabilitation in Poland. Relevance: Growing costs of health care enforced managers to be looking for new organizational solutions of services which could enable as early as possible rehabilitation after disease onset. Early post-stroke rehabilitation consists of many elements of modern strategy of reha...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether early rehabilitation reduces the occurrence of posttotal hip arthroplasty (THA) complications, adverse events, and medical expenses within one postoperative year. METHOD We retrospectively retrieve data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. Patients who had undergone THA during the period from 1998 to 2010 were recruited, matched for prope...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors that predict the probability of an employee being granted in-patient multidisciplinary rehabilitation to sustain worklife participation. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS A total of 49,264 public sector employees. METHODS Baseline characteristics were measured from survey responses and registers. Two types of rehabilitation were identified: early (fo...

PURPOSE To investigate whether patients are prescribed rehabilitation early in a new sick leave period, and whether this prescription is associated with sex, age, diagnosis, description of functioning and affiliation of certifying physician. METHOD A cross-sectional study using data from sickness certificates issued during a total sick leave period, collected consecutively during 2 weeks in 2...

Craniosynostosis is a common congenital craniofacial deformity caused by premature ossification and closure of one or more cranial sutures. will not only affect the normal development skull, but also may cause variety complications, damage nervous system, long-term effects on physical mental health. Therefore, it particularly important to provide new ideas for clinical treatment studying rehabi...

results in the first three years, the team managed the care of 812 admissions. mean age wasn 44.3 years (sd = 24.8) and mean length of hospital stay was 6.1 days (sd = 10.9). ofn these individuals, 674 attended for 6 month follow-up with 52.2% having a good outcomen on extended glasgow outcome score. patients and their relatives' feedbacks weren excellent with an average score of 4.7/5 on overa...

OBJECTIVE To use the ratio of early mitral inflow peak velocity (E) to mitral flow propagation velocity (FPV) measured in the early phase of myocardial infarction (early phase E/FPV) to evaluate the training effects of 8 weeks' cardiopulmonary rehabilitation in patients post-myocardial infarction. DESIGN Single-blinded, randomized control trial. PARTICIPANTS Eighty-seven patients with acute...