STUDY OBJECTIVES Pulmonary rehabilitation is an established treatment in patients with chronic lung disease but is not widely utilized. Most trials have been conducted in single centers. The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT) provided an opportunity to evaluate pulmonary rehabilitation in a large cohort of patients who were treated in centers throughout the United States. DESIGN Prospe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In this report, the authors assess practice patterns at both academic and nonacademic centers regarding the treatment of aneurysms with Guglielmi detachable coils (GDCs), thrombolysis of the carotid-vertebral arteries, and stent placement with angioplasty of the carotid arteries. METHODS A neurovascular radiology survey was sent to 102 directors of neuroradiology fellow...

OBJECTIVE When a person is hospitalized, he or she enters an environment in which time is structured very differently than it is in everyday life. Research with healthy young subjects in sleep laboratories has indicated that disruption in activity-rest cycles significantly affects mood, physical skills, and cognitive performance. Older persons whose daily routines are upset when they become pat...

OBJECTIVE Detect the main predictive non-motor factors related to independent community ambulation after stroke. Furthermore, we propose a scale to estimate the probability of a stroke patient achieving independent community ambulation after 6 months of rehabilitation. DESIGN AND SETTINGS Prospective cohort. Subjects treated in a rehabilitation center in a large metropolitan area. Independent...

Objectives: Studying the situation of providing services for people with disability are very important and in current situation which is dominate on system providing rehabilitation services in Iran, private rehabilitation centers can be the best and the most important focus for this study. Methods: This research performed by qualitative method and with phenomenology type, and purposeful samp...

The rehabilitation centers have emerged and become legitimized in the biomedical model, which from the implementation of attendance, namely the operational guidelines of the national policy of humanization in care and management of the Unified Health System (SUS), have been seeking changes to ensure humanized access and the resolution of health problems. The aim of this study was to analyze the...