Addressing inactivity after stroke: The Collaborative Rehabilitation in Acute Stroke (CREATE) study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke patients are often inactive outside of structured therapy sessions - an enduring international challenge despite large scale organizational changes, national guidelines and performance targets. We examined whether experienced-based co-design (EBCD) - an improvement methodology - could address inactivity in stroke units.

Aims

To evaluate the feasibility and impact of patients, carers, and staff co-designing and implementing improvements to increase supervised and independent therapeutic patient activity in stroke units and to compare use of full and accelerated EBCD cycles.

Methods

Mixed-methods case comparison in four stroke units in England.

Results

Interviews were held with 156 patients, staff, and carers in total; ethnographic observations

SUBMITTER: Jones F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8366168 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature