Old benefit as much as young patients with stroke from high-intensity neurorehabilitation: Cohort analysis

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 526-530

  Knecht, Stefan ^a,b   Roßmüller, Jens ^a   Unrath, Michael ^c   Stephan, Klaus Martin ^a   Berger, Klaus ^c   Studer, Bettina ^a,b  

^a Rehabilitation Center St Mauritius   (Germany)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROREHABILITATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE REHABILITATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE REHABILITATION;

EID: 84931458409     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2015-310344     Document Type: Article

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