Review: therapy based rehabilitation services reduce the risk of deterioration in patients who have had a stroke.

Study selection and assessment: randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that compared outpatient therapy based rehabilitation services (ie, interventions provided by qualified physiotherapists, occupational therapists, multidisciplinary staff, or under the supervision of qualified therapy staff) with no routine input. Quality of the RCTs was evaluated using criteria including method of generating the random sequence, concealment of allocation, masking of outcome assessment, and intention to treat analysis.