Factors Influencing Information Seeking by Physical Therapists Providing Stroke Management

Factors influencing stroke rehabilitation.

Factors Influencing Stroke Rehabilitation • Quantitative and semiquantitative methods have been used to evaluate the clinical improvement of 62 patients with completed stroke who were admitted to a rehabilitation hospital. Improvement in motility and leg strength on the paretic side was minimal and was not influenced by facilitation exercise techniques. Observed changes in strength and motility...

Contingency Factors Influencing Implementation of Physical Asset Management Practices

Information-Providing Dialogue Management

The central module of any natural language dialogue system is the dialogue manager, which plays the role of an intermediate agent between the user and the information source. Its cooperativity and portability highly determines the efficiency of the dialogue system. Therefore, as the basis for cooperativity of information-providing dialogue systems we propose a knowledge representation of the in...

Physical therapists in private practice: information sources and information needs.

Increasing numbers of physical therapists are providing evaluation and therapy in their own private-practice clinics. Their move out of the hospital setting has reduced their access to the sources of information designed to support clinical and practice-management decision making. The author designed a survey to determine how often physical therapists in private practice in Vermont use seven so...

Factors influencing students to enroll in health information management programs.

This nonexperimental quantitative descriptive-correlative research study was performed to describe the sources with the greatest influence on the participants' decision to enroll in a postsecondary educational program with the intent of working toward a career in health information management. Participants were asked, "Which sources have the greatest influence on an individual's decision to enr...