BACKGROUND Cardiac rehabilitation has a beneficial effect on the prognosis and quality of life of cardiac patients, and has been found to be cost-effective. This report describes a comprehensive and low cost educational intervention designed to increase the attendance at cardiac rehabilitation programs of patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS/DESIGN A contr...

In rehabilitation nursing, the patient classification systems or acuity models and nurse-staffing ratios are not supported by empirical evidence. Moreover there are no studies published characterizing nursing hours per patient day, proportion of RN staff and impact of agency nurses in inpatient rehabilitation settings. The purpose of this prospective observational study was to describe rehabili...

In the era of widespread access to antiretroviral therapy, people living with HIV survive; however, this comes with new experiences of comorbidities and HIV-related disability posing new challenges to rehabilitation professionals and an already fragile health system in Southern Africa. Public health approaches to HIV need to include not only prevention, treatment and support but also rehabilita...

PURPOSE This article explores the rationale for choosing the instruments included within the UK Rehabilitation Outcomes Collaborative (UKROC) data set. Using one specialist neuro-rehabilitation unit as an exemplar service, it describes an approach to engaging the hearts and minds of clinicians in recording the data. KEY MESSAGES AND IMPLICATIONS Measures included within a national data set fo...

Objective: Although evidence suggests that patients with cognitive impairment can benefit from rehabilitation, healthcare professionals (HCPs) on geriatric rehabilitation units (GRUs) often find that providing care to these patients following a hip fracture can be challenging. The objective of this study was to identify the behavioral symptoms that HCPs find difficult to manage in patients with...

In 1999, the National Service Framework for Mental Health1 set targets for the implementation of specialist community mental health services across England (335 crisis resolution, 220 assertive outreach and 50 early intervention services by 2003). Five years later, there were 263 assertive outreach teams employing around 3000 staff, 168 crisis resolution teams employing around 2000 staff and 41...

I am grateful for help from many people, especially Dr Margaret Agerholm, Heenan House Rehabilitation Centre, London; Dr K Andrews, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester; Miss Valerie Eaton Griffiths, Volunteer Stroke Scheme, Great Missenden; Drs R Langton Hewer and D Wade, Department of Neurology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol; Dr D G Jenkins, Wolfson Medical Rehabilitation U...

hearing loss occurs in 80 to 90% of ACF residents (Worrall, Hickson & Dodd, 1993; Jee et al., 1995), compared to approximately 40 to 50% of older adults living in the community. In addition, those in ACFs are more complex in terms of audiological management as they have other serious co-occurring health conditions that complicate the rehabilitation process. The major relevant health conditions ...

A man who insisted on having his hat taken off by the staff of his residential home after hours at the day hospital doing things for himself illustrates one of the challenges of geriatric rehabilitation: someone may be encouraged to do more than he or she normally does, but this may be no use unless rehabilitation takes account of the person's actual life, and relatives and care givers are invo...

OBJECTIVE To determine if a high compliance rate for wearing external hip protectors could be achieved and sustained in a long-term care population. STUDY DESIGN A 13-month prospective study of daytime use of external hip protectors in an at-risk long-term care population. SETTING One hundred-bed not-for-profit long-term care facility. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-eight ambulatory residents having...