Is a day hospital rehabilitation programme associated with reduction of handicap in stroke patients?

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-266

  Hershkovitz, Avital ^a,b   Beloosesky, Yichayaou ^b   Brill, Shai ^a,b   Gottlieb, Daniel ^a  

^a Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Center   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DAY HOSPITAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABLED PERSON; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CENTER; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2342421180     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215504cr731oa     Document Type: Article

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