A qualitative study exploring patients' and carers' experiences of Early Supported Discharge services after stroke.

Conclusions:Accelerated hospital discharge and home-based rehabilitation was perceived positively by service users. The study findings highlight the need for Early Supported Discharge teams to address information and support needs of patients and carers and to monitor their impact on carers in addition to patients, using robust outcome measures. PMID: 23455948 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23455948?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinical Rehabilitation - March 1, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Cobley CS, Fisher RJ, Chouliara N, Kerr M, Walker MF Tags: Clin Rehabil Source Type: research