An early mobilization protocol successfully delivers more and earlier therapy to acute stroke patients: Further results from phase II of AVERT

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-26

  Van Wijk, Renske ^a,b   Cumming, Toby ^a   Churilov, Leonid ^a,c   Donnan, Geoffrey ^a,c   Bernhardt, Julie ^a,d  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

acute care; cerebrovascular disease; randomized controlled trials; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; STROKE; VERY EARLY MOBILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856046928     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968311407779     Document Type: Article

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