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A Hearing Screening Protocol for Stroke Patients: An Exploratory Study
Conclusion: This study is a first step towards addressing the complex auditory needs of stroke survivors in a systematic manner, with the ultimate aim to support their communication needs and long-term recovery and wellbeing. Registration: Project Identification number 11/0469 and REC ref 11/LO/1675
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - August 5, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

From paper to informatics: the Post Soft Care-App, an easy-to-use and fast tool to help therapists identify unmet needs in stroke patients.
Authors: De Bartolo D, Morone G, Lupo A, Aloise F, Baricich A, Di Francesco D, Calderone C, Cisari C, Verdecchia G, Sandrini G, Pistarini C, Antonucci G, Smania N, Paolucci S, Iosa M Abstract Even after rehabilitation, post stroke patients remain disabled. The Post Stroke Checklist (PSC) was developed to highlight unmet needs of community-dwelling stroke patients. The present study set out to validate Post Soft Care-App, designed to administer the PSC using smartphones and tablets, in order to monitor unmet needs in chronic patients. Fifty-three patients and fifteen physiotherapists were enrolled. The therapists ad...
Source: Functional Neurology - January 23, 2019 Category: Neurology Tags: Funct Neurol Source Type: research

The lack of documentation of preferences in a cohort of adults who died after ischemic stroke
Conclusions: Documented discussions about limitations on life-sustaining interventions during hospitalization were low, even though this cohort died within 30 days poststroke. Improving the documentation of preferences may be difficult given the 2015 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 30-day stroke mortality hospital performance measure that is unadjusted for patient preferences regarding life-sustaining interventions.
Source: Neurology - May 29, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Robinson, M. T., Vickrey, B. G., Holloway, R. G., Chong, K., Williams, L. S., Brook, R. H., Leng, M., Parikh, P., Zingmond, D. S. Tags: Outcome research, Quality of life, Infarction, Palliative care ARTICLE Source Type: research

Group therapy as a social context for aphasia recovery: a pilot, observational study in an acute rehabilitation hospital.
CONCLUSION: In the aphasia group treatment described in this study, participants initiated more communication, with greater diversity of expressive modalities and more varied communicative purposes. Participants in group therapy also showed an increased tendency to communicate for the purpose of social closeness. These findings suggest that there are important differences in the communication of patients participating in group vs. individual speech therapy for treatment of acute, severe non-fluent aphasia. PMID: 27077989 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - March 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Fama ME, Baron CR, Hatfield B, Turkeltaub PE Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research