Clinical and cost effectiveness of computer treatment for aphasia post stroke (Big CACTUS): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Palmer, Rebecca ^a   Cooper, Cindy ^a   Enderby, Pam ^a   Brady, Marian ^b   Julious, Steven ^a   Bowen, Audrey ^c   Latimer, Nicholas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Computerised intervention; Long term rehabilitation; RCT design; Self management; Speech and language therapy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEORECORDING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; SELF CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; APHASIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF CARE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84924236772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-014-0527-7     Document Type: Article

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