objectives: the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and occupational stress among rehabilitation staffs in tehran’s training hospitals . methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 169 staff members selected from a total of 300 rehabilitation staffs working in tehran’s training hospitals, recruited by random cluster sampling. ...

Authored by Vladimir Kaye, MD, Consulting Staff, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Hoag Hospital Coauthored by Murray E Brandstater, MBBS, PhD, Chairman and Program Director, Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Loma Linda University School of Medicine Edited by Virginia Simson Nelson, MD, MPH, Chief, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine...

BACKGROUND Outcomes of inpatient stroke rehabilitation need to be reviewed in terms of optimal resource utilization (staff time, service organization, and duration of stay). We compared FIM efficiency scores between three hospitals, and also variation in FIM scores over a ten year period in one hospital undergoing reduction in staff numbers, to examine the relationship between outcome and servi...

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...

Patient safety has been relatively unexplored in rehabilitation and complex continuing care (CCC) settings. From the perspectives of staff members, this qualitative study aimed to explore patient safety phenomena that exist within rehabilitation/CCC and to identify the characteristics of the current workplace culture that act as enablers of or barriers to patient safety. Sixty-six staff members...

BACKGROUND The implementation of multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation interventions is challenging, even when the intervention is evidence-based. Very little is known about the implementation of complex interventions in rehabilitation clinical trials. The aim of study was to better understand how the implementation of a rehabilitation intervention in a clinical trial within acute stroke unit...

INTRODUCTION Sexual problems are common with cardiovascular disease, and can negatively impact quality of life. To address sexual problems, guidelines have identified the importance of sexual counselling during cardiac rehabilitation, yet this is rarely provided. The Cardiac Health and Relationship Management and Sexuality (CHARMS) intervention aims to improve the provision of sexual counsellin...

BACKGROUND/AIM There is a perception that in patients with heart diseases in Serbia sexual rehabilitation does not exist. Why do we not perform our job? A kind of resistance to sexual rehabilitation is common for heart disease patients. Prejudices regarding patients' sexuality, fear and limited knowledge are not rare among the members of medical staff. The aim of this study was to assess knowle...