The purpose of this study was to: 1) examine the variation in organizational structure within rehabilitation bed-service units (RBU) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and 2) evaluate the effects of RBU and parent hospital structure on stroke rehabilitation outcomes. Two VHA-wide surveys of acute and rehabilitation services for stroke were linked with 2 y of VHA rehabilitation outcome...

OBJECTIVES Rehabilitation in the home (RITH) services increasingly provide hospital substitution services. This study examines clinical outcomes in a large metropolitan RITH service in Western Australia. METHODS The 2010 database of Fremantle Hospital RITH service was interrogated to identify the clinical profile of cases, length of stay (LOS) and clinical outcomes. Negative outcomes included...

The aim of this article is to examine the role of two geriatric rehabilitation units in a large rural area, and compare them with published data about rehabilitation units in urban settings. We look at the inputs to the units and the measurable outputs, including length of stay, discharge disposition of patients and changes in patient activities of daily living. We show that rehabilitation serv...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the content of an English-language version of a Japanese iPad application designed to facilitate shared decision-making around goal setting in rehabilitation: Aid for Decision-making in Occupational Choice-English (ADOC-E). DESIGN Phase 1: Delphi methods to reach consensus with an international group of expert occupational therapists on the text and i...

conclusions there was a negative gap between the patients’ expectations and what they actually perceived in the studied rehabilitation centers (with the exception of one public clinic); therefore, improvements are needed across all five dimensions. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study conducted in ahvaz, iran. the study sample was composed of 255 patients randomly selected from...