Feasibility of Population-based Stroke Rehabilitation Research in a Bi-ethnic Community

To establish infrastructure for a population-based study of post-stroke rehabilitation in Mexican Americans (MA) including: 1) identifying and establishing partnerships with inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), skilled nursing facilities (SNF), home health agencies (HHA), and outpatient facilities (OP) providing stroke rehabilitation, and 2) developing and piloting data collection instruments needed to compare ethnic groups in terms of post-stroke rehabilitation.

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Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - September 24, 2017 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Lynda Lisabeth, Emma Sais, Susan Horn, Miguel Fuentes, Nneka Ifejika, Erin Case, Lewis Morgenstern Source Type: research