Efficacy of the Assessment for Rehabilitation tool in improving proportions of patients with stroke assessed for rehabilitatio

Completed

• Conditions: stroke; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation; Stroke - Haemorrhagic; Stroke - Ischaemic

• Registration Number: ACTRN12616000340437
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of South Australia

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-03-16
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 620

Inclusion Criteria

For medical record audit: Admitted to hospital with stroke

To be included in interventions and focus groups: health professional working on acute stroke unit

Exclusion Criteria

For medical record audit: No signs of stroke on admission to hospital, receiving palliative care, transferred to another hospital for acute management/investigation

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportions of patients with stroke who received a documented assessment for rehabilitation. Data collected by assessor blinded to hospital allocation via medical record audit. Also collecting data regarding details of assessment (conducted by which health discipline, recommendation from assessment), [6 months post-commencement of intervention]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportions of patients who accessed stroke rehabilitation following discharge from acute hospital, collected via medical record audit by assessor blinded to hospital allocation. Details collected regarding rehabilitation setting (home, community, inpatient setting)[6 months post-commencement of intervention];Self-reported rehabilitation assessment and referral practices at each stroke unit. Factors identified by health professionals working on acute stroke units that influenced rehabilitation assessment and referral practices. Data collected by focus groups at each site, facilitated by research PT[4-6 months post-commencement of intervention sessions]