Why Are Stroke Rehabilitation Trial Recruitment Rates in Single Digits?

Conclusions: Screening of ischemic stroke patients while they are still in acute care is crucial to successful recruitment for early stroke rehabilitation trials. A significant proportion of eligible patients are lost to “short length of stay” in acute care, and arrive to inpatient rehabilitation “too late” for an early rehabilitation trial. Additional screening of mildly impaired patients using a motor function specific scale will benefit the trial recruitment and generalizability.Trial Registration Number:http://www.clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02235974.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research