Exploring threats to generalisability in a large international rehabilitation trial (AVERT)

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Bernhardt, Julie ^a   Raffelt, Audrey ^a   Churilov, Leonid ^a   Lindley, Richard I ^b   Speare, Sally ^a   Ancliffe, Jacqueline ^c   Katijjahbe, Md Ali ^d   Hameed, Shahul ^e   Lennon, Sheila ^f   McRae, Anna ^g   Tan, Dawn ^e   Quiney, Jan ^h   Williamson, Hannah C ⁱ   Collier, Janice ^a   Dewey, Helen M ^j   Donnan, Geoffrey A ^k   Langhorne, Peter ^l   Thrift, Amanda G ^m  

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

^b GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

^e SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^f FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^h ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁱ AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^m SOUTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL; MALAYSIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SELECTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGAPORE; STROKE REHABILITATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGAPORE; STROKE REHABILITATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84941566751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008378     Document Type: Article

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