Opening the Black Box of Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: Stroke Rehabilitation Patients, Processes, and Outcomes

You can look all you want but I'm positive that the 'black box' is totally empty.  Or maybe Schrödinger's cat is in it and already dead. There are NO PROTOCOLS FOR STROKE REHAB. All we get are shitty guidelines. 

Opening the Black Box of Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: Stroke Rehabilitation Patients, Processes, and Outcomes

Gerben DeJong  ¹ , Susan D Horn, Brendan Conroy, Diane Nichols, Edward B Healton

Affiliations

• PMID: 16373135
• DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.09.003

Abstract

DeJong G, Horn SD, Conroy B, Nichols D, Healton EB. Opening the black box of post-stroke rehabilitation: stroke rehabilitation patients, processes, and outcomes. This article introduces the journal's supplement devoted to the methods and findings of the 7-site Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes Project (PSROP), a study designed to provide a very granular in-depth understanding of stroke rehabilitation practice and how practice is related to outcomes. The article summarizes current knowledge about the effectiveness of post-stroke rehabilitation, outlines where the PSROP fits into the broader traditions of stroke rehabilitation outcomes research, underscores the study's methodologic innovations, and summarizes the scope of the articles that follow.