OBJECTIVE This study explored the information needs of rehabilitation therapists (occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists) working with patients who have had strokes in order to characterize their clinical questions, defined as their formalized information needs arising in the context of everyday clinical practice. METHODS The researchers took a construc...

BACKGROUND COPD is a highly incapacitating disease, particularly among older people, implying significant burden for family caregivers. Involving caregivers in comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation programs might benefit their functional coping to care demands; however, there is no objective evidence to sustain such assumption. This study is a secondary analysis aiming to analyze the effects o...

BACKGROUND The rationale for commissioning community pulmonary rehabilitation programmes is based on evidence from randomised clinical trials. However, there are a number of reasons why similar programmes might be less effective outside the environment of a clinical trial. These include a less highly selected patient group and less control over the fidelity of intervention delivery. The main ob...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of the Heart Manual, a self help, home based cardiac rehabilitation programme, with hospital based cardiac rehabilitation programmes. Comparisons were made on key psychological, behavioural, biological, service and cost outcomes. METHOD A systematic review was conducted. Nine electronic databases and the internet were searched. Non published trials of the Hea...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mexican Americans (MAs) have worse neurological, functional, and cognitive outcomes after stroke. Stroke rehabilitation is important for good outcome. In a population-based study, we sought to determine whether allocation of stroke rehabilitation services differed by ethnicity. METHODS Patients with stroke were identified as part of the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corp...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programs document outcomes to prepare for program certification, to demonstrate the value of the program to upper management, and to provide feedback to pulmonary rehabilitation staff regarding the efficacy of the program. The overall goal of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using non-research-generated clinical data to report long-term outcomes ...

OBJECTIVES To characterize a spinal cord injury (SCI) population from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China; to evaluate functional outcomes of physical rehabilitation interventions; to assess potential determinants of rehabilitation effectiveness; and to assess medical complications and management outcomes. METHODS A total of 51 earthquake victims with SCI were enrolled and underwent rehabili...

There is a need to organize rehabilitation and related research into distinct scientific fields in order to overcome the current limitations of rehabilitation research. Based on the general distinction in basic, applied and professional sciences applicable to research in general, and the rehabilitation relevant distinction between the comprehensive perspective based on WHO's integrative model o...