Economic evaluation of robot-assisted training versus an enhanced upper limb therapy programme or usual care for patients with moderate or severe upper limb functional limitation due to stroke: results from the RATULS randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether robot-assisted training is cost-effective compared with an enhanced upper limb therapy (EULT) programme or usual care.

Design

Economic evaluation within a randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Four National Health Service (NHS) centres in the UK: Queen's Hospital, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Northwick Park Hospital, London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust; Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; and North Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Participants

770 participants aged 18 years or older with moderate or severe upper limb functional limitation from first-ever stroke.

Interventions

Participants randomised to one of three pro

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Garcia C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8154983 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature