Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Quality of life and disability after severe stroke and early neurological rehabilitation

Pretty much useless, there was no objective analysis of the starting point and the therapy delivered to the results achieved.  ISN'T THAT THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF STROKE THERAPY? WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T? The mentors and senior researchers involved in this need to be fired.

Quality of life and disability after severe stroke and early neurological rehabilitation

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Data on the long-term effects on quality of life of patients after severe stroke and discharge from early institutional rehabilitation are important for guiding the early rehabilitation phase and the further outpatient care.
OBJECTIVE: Analysis of the outcome of patients following severe stroke 3 and 12 months after discharge from early neurological rehabilitation.(What the fuck stupid objective is this? It should be; What interventions provide the best outcomes.)
METHODS: Analysis of the Asklepios Hamburg multicenter early stroke rehabilitation registry (ICD 10: I61, I60, I63 and OPS 8‑552). Structured interviews with documentation of disabilities using the early rehabilitation Barthel index (ERBI), modified Rankin scale (mRS) and quality of life (12-item short form health survey, SF-12). Assessment of further treatment and complications 3 and 12 months after discharge from the early rehabilitation departments by telephone interviews. RESULTS: Out of 1045 treated stroke patients 270 were enrolled between October 2015 and November 2017 and 200 and 151 patients could be followed up after 3 and 12 months, respectively. There was a significant improvement (p < 0.001) in the median ERBI (151 patients at 12 months). Factors influencing a poorer functional outcome (higher mRS) at 12 months were a higher mRS at discharge (OR 5.43 [1.18, 25.09], p = 0.03) and age (per decade OR 1.5 [1.09, 2.02]; p = 0.01). Female sex reduced the risk for a poorer outcome after 12 months (OR 0.49 [0.25, 0.96]; p = 0.04). Quality of life (SF-12) was not different over time. The mental quality of life showed no differences (p = 0.32) compared to a historical, significantly less (p<0.001) handicapped stroke collective.
CONCLUSION: The surviving severe stroke patients recovered significantly up to 12 months after discharge. The mental quality of life did not differ from that of a historical less handicapped collective.(Then you didn't ask the right questions, with the caregiver not present. You browbeat them into accepting your tyranny of low expectations.)

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