RoboHealth is a project that is focused on giving assistance to medical staff in order to improve the quality of treatment provided to patients in rehabilitation processes. The project covers two aspects during the rehabilitation process: assessment and therapy itself. In previous work [1], an automatic assessment system was presented for the evaluation of patient progress and effectiveness of ...

In this paper an approach for measuring an monitoring the rehabilitation of patients on monitoring stations via the combined analyses of structured and unstructured data is presented. Here, the focus is on stroke patients in different rehabilitation phases. For clarification interviews with IT managers from hospitals and with parts of the medical staff were carried. Based on the information fro...

In Hungary, rehabilitation of the physically disabled is carried out in separate5 specialized units, e.g. neurology, rheumatology, traumatology, orthopaedics, etc. …, each under a medical practitioner qualified in that particular section. Members of the staff engaged in these separate units meet in "The Hungarian Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled", which, in turn, has contact with ...

The study assessed sustainability of the Family Care Map, a family-centered approach to providing care for Veterans with polytrauma-related injuries, in four Department of Veterans Affairs Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers. We applied a mixed-methods approach. Staff surveys used standardized measures of sustainability, commitment to change, information, and participation during implementation. ...

Extensive job stress and workload are main causes of frustration and reduced efficiency among workers and despite negative effects of these factors on employees' performance, related studies in rehabilitation staff are limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate job stress, workload and their related factors in rehabilitation staff. In this cross-sectional study, 150 employees in three rehab...

Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services is a voluntary organisation which foriflel undertook rehabilitation for the physically disabled in New York. Now they are provi^ similar services for mentally ill patients in Rockland State Hospital. Only a small tean1 workers was available for this 6,000 bed mental hospital, which had recently begu1^ modify its custodial practices and was short of medic...

For patients with cervical spinal cord injuries to become independent in their ADL (Activities of Daily Living), residual arm function is very important. Also, age, sex, physical strengths, obesity, spasticity, pain, contracture and motivation are related. We investigated the possibility of independence in ADL for patients with cervical spinal cord injuries, carrying out our evaluation based on...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to compare the frequency of mental strain effects on employees in somatic and psychosomatic rehabilitation clinics as well as between the different occupational groups. Associations between mental strain effects and working conditions, cooperation in the team and employee satisfaction are also investigated. METHODS The present study is cross-sectional with a...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programs document outcomes to prepare for program certification, to demonstrate the value of the program to upper management, and to provide feedback to pulmonary rehabilitation staff regarding the efficacy of the program. The overall goal of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using non-research-generated clinical data to report long-term outcomes ...