Overcoming practical challenges to conducting clinical research in the inpatient stroke rehabilitation setting

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 386-394

  Campbell, Grace B ^a   Skidmore, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Whyte, Ellen M ^b   Matthews, Judith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Interprofessional relations; Rehabilitation; Research design; Research methodology; Stroke

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL FATIGUE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL FATIGUE; REHABILITATION CENTER; REIMBURSEMENT; STAFF TRAINING; COMPLICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MENTAL FATIGUE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STROKE REHABILITATION;

APHASIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MENTAL FATIGUE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION CENTERS; RESEARCH; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION;

EID: 84973601481     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1074935714Z.0000000045     Document Type: Article

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