BACKGROUND Different kinds of telemedicine services have made their entry into healthcare. In this article we focus on a telerehabilitation service for physical exercise, designed and implemented as partial replacement of a 3-day outpatient rehabilitation program for chronic disease patients. The aim of this article is to examine the use pattern of this telerehabilitation service by chronic dis...

BACKGROUND Pancytopenia, immunosuppression, and other factors may place patients with multiple myeloma at risk for medical complications. These patients often require inpatient rehabilitation. No previous studies have looked at risk factors for return to the primary acute care service of this patient population. OBJECTIVE To determine the percentage of and factors associated with return to th...

Objectives: The majority (80%) of stroke survivors in Bangladesh have lived with either minor or major physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities. Due to patients’ poor perceived experience in healthcare services, participation in rehabilitation care has become a significant challenge for them. Consequently, it increases the burden of stroke disability. Therefore, this study aimed to measu...

Introduction: In Finland nowaday it is emphasized in the rehabilitation of the schizophrenia the importance of the seamless rehabilitation path and the service user’s expertise and experience. Research setting is the rehabilitation course which has been planned for the young adults who have schizophrenia. The rehabilitation course is a cooperation project of the third sector, hospital district ...

Brain injury rehabilitation developed rapidly during the 1980s, and as a result confusion now exists as to what form of service delivery is preferable. The post-acute alternatives are hospital outpatient services or comprehensive treatment in residential programs (inclusive of day treatment) or home programs.1,2,3 In recent years, rehabilitation in the home has gained increased support as part ...

BACKGROUND Hospitals are under pressure from admissions of increasing numbers of older people. Older people may suffer unnecessary activity limitation after acute illnesses through lack of appropriate rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE To evaluate an early discharge and rehabilitation service for older people. DESIGN A randomised controlled trial comparing an early discharge and rehabilitation with ...

BACKGROUND Twenty-two years after the promulgation of a plethora of progressive health policies since 1994, the South African public health system reflects a number of stumbling blocks regarding implementation. Rehabilitation professionals are not sufficiently equipped nor allowed the opportunity to comprehensively implement Primary Healthcare (PHC) from a bottom-up approach, thus engaging comm...

Aims and method A retrospective evaluation was undertaken of the clinical and economic effectiveness of three in-patient rehabilitation units across one London National Health Service trust. Information on admission days and costs 2 years before and 2 years after the rehabilitation placement, length of rehabilitation placement and the discharge pathway was collected on 22 service users. Results...

SUMMARY During the last decade we assisted to relevant progress in rehabilitation studies and in technological development. From the combination of these issues rises the tele-rehabilitation--a subfield of telemedicine consisting of a system to control rehabilitation "at distance"--as an actual possibility of application and a promising development in the future. The present paper offers a shor...