Daily Treatment Time and Functional Gains of Stroke Patients During Inpatient Rehabilitation
Objective:
To study the effects of daily treatment time on functional gain of patients who have had a stroke.
Design:
A retrospective cohort study.
Setting:
An inpatient rehabilitation hospital (IRH) in northern California.
Participants:
Three hundred sixty patients who had a stroke and were discharged from the IRH in 2007.
Interventions:
Average minutes of rehabilitation therapy per day, including physical therapy, occupation therapy, speech and language therapy, and total treatment.
Main Outcome Measures:
Functional gain measured by the Functional Independence Measure, including activities of daily living, mobility, cognition, and the total of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores.
Results:
The study sample had a mean age of 64.8 years; 57.4% were men and 61.4% were white. The mean total daily therapy time was 190.3 minutes, and the mean total functional gain was 26.0. A longer daily therapeutic duration was significantly associated with total functional gain (r = .23, P = .0094). Patients who received a total therapy time of
Source: PM and R - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Hua Wang, Michelle Camicia, Joseph Terdiman, Murali K. Mannava, Stephen Sidney, M. Elizabeth Sandel Tags: Original Research Source Type: research