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A neurological rehabilitation unit : audit of activity and outcome
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Freeman, J. A., Playford, E. Diane, Nicholas, R. S. and Thompson, A. (1996) A neurological rehabilitation unit : audit of activity and outcome. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 30 (1). pp. 21-26. ISSN 1470-2118.
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Official URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8745358
Abstract
A clinical audit was carried out to determine the impact of multidisciplinary rehabilitation in a specialist neurorehabilitation unit, and to demonstrate how outcome measurement can be incorporated into routine clinical audit. The study describes and interprets the results of one year's activity and outcome in a neurorehabilitation unit. A total of 138 patients were admitted to the 18 bedded unit between April 1994 and March 1995. The main outcome measures were: length of inpatient stay, admission and discharge destination, disability as measured by the Barthel Index and Functional Independence Measure, handicap as measured by the Environmental Status Scale and the Handicap Assessment Scale, and the time spent undertaking the audit. Improvement in disability was demonstrated in 112 (83%) patients and in handicap in 89 (66%) patients. The time taken to analyse the data on a quarterly basis was reduced from 20 hours for the first quarter to 4.5 hours for the last quarter. The results show that multidisciplinary inpatient neurorehabilitation leads to functional improvement in the majority of neurologically impaired patients. Outcome measurement and data collection can be incorporated into routine clinical practice once a sound methodology has been established.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London | ||||
| Publisher: | Royal College of Physicians | ||||
| ISSN: | 1470-2118 | ||||
| Official Date: | January 1996 | ||||
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| Volume: | 30 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 21-26 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Description: | Journal continued from 1998 as Clinical Medicine |
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