Cost consequences analysis of early vocational rehabilitation compared with usual care for stroke survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare costs and consequences of Early Stroke Specialist Vocational Rehabilitation (ESSVR) with usual care in working age, stroke survivors over 12 months.

Design

An economic evaluation nested within the pragmatic, multi-centre, randomised, controlled RETurn to work After stroKE (RETAKE) study.

Setting

Twenty-one English and Welsh National Health Service (NHS) hospital-based stroke units. A UK NHS and Personal Social Services perspective was taken in the base-case and a wider perspective (participant, family, employer and other public services) in a secondary analysis.

Participants

A total of 583 stroke survivors age ≥18 years (mean 54.0 years, 69% male).

Interventions

Participants were randomised to ESSVR, an early, individually tailored (

SUBMITTER: Pyne S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11846267 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature