Factors associated with community versus personal care home discharges after inpatient stroke rehabilitation: the need for a pre-admission predictive model.

Conclusions: A combination of age, admission functional independence measure, cognitive impairment, pre-stroke living situation, and measurability of the Berg balance scale on admission to stroke rehabilitation were highly predictive of eventual personal care home discharge. PMID: 31682535 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31682535?dopt=Abstract

Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - November 3, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Wasserman A, Thiessen M, Pooyania S Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

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