Factors influencing the amount of therapy received during inpatient stroke care: an analysis of data from the UK Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme.

CONCLUSION: The amount of stroke therapy is associated with unmodifiable patient-related characteristics and modifiable organizational factors in that more therapy was associated with higher therapy and nurse staffing levels, specialist stroke rehabilitation services, timely therapy assessments, and the presence of weekend and early discharge services.
PMID: 32508132 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Rehabilitation - June 6, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Gittins M, Vail A, Bowen A, Lugo-Palacios D, Paley L, Bray B, Gannon B, Tyson S Tags: Clin Rehabil Source Type: research