Resource use of healthcare services 1 year after stroke: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of a client-centred activities of daily living intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of the study was to compare the total use of healthcare services in the course of the first year after a stroke between participants who, after the acute care, had received occupational therapy as a client-centred activities of daily living (ADL) intervention (CADL) and participants who had received usual ADL intervention (UADL).

Design

A secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster-randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Setting

Primary and secondary care in Sweden.

Participants

Participants were included if they: (1) had received CADL or UADL in the RCT, either as inpatients in geriatric rehabilitation units or in their own homes, and (2) data could be retrieved about their use of healthcare services provided by the county council from compu

SUBMITTER: Tistad M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078276 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature