Eligibility Screening for an Early Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation Study.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Stroke rehabilitation should start early in order to optimize patients' outcomes, but most trials include subacute or chronic patients. Although suggested that early stroke rehabilitation trials face difficulties regarding patient recruitment with corresponding low recruitment rates, no systematically collected information regarding screening and associated costs has been published. Such knowledge is essential for optimizing enrollment. Therefore, this study evaluated screening procedures for an early upper limb rehabilitation study including first-ever ischemic stroke patients <48 h after onset. Methods: Screening data for a monocentric longitudinal observational cohort study was prospectively collected. Researchers screened health-care records, during the morn

SUBMITTER: Held JPO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6614516 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature