Perspectives The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has firmly placed disability in a human rights perspective. In the context of the Convention, disability refers to activity limitations and participation restrictions that result from the interaction of an impairment of body function or structure with environmental factors. The Convention addresses the rights ...

Introduction Stroke is a continuum spectrum of complications related to the cerebrovascular event. Economic evaluation usually estimates costs incurred during acute management phase. Costs for managing post stroke patients at Specialist clinic setting and outpatient rehabilitation are of interest for developing countries which largely provide this type of service. We aim to determine costs for ...

OBJECTIVE To assimilate the published evidence for the effectiveness of multidisciplinary rehabilitation following acquired brain injury in adults of working age. DESIGN The evidence derived from 2 contrasting approaches to systematic evaluation of the published literature is compared. METHODS A synthesis of best evidence compiled from a Cochrane Review of randomized controlled trials is co...

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...

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...