Rehabilitation after critical illness: Could a ward-based generic rehabilitation assistant promote recovery?

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 57-65

  Salisbury, Lisa Gabrielle ^a   Merriweather, Judith Lorna ^b   Walsh, Timothy Simon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assistant; Critical illness; Follow up; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIET THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION NURSING;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUTRITION THERAPY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REHABILITATION NURSING;

EID: 77952989724     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2010.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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