Components of an Effective Early Supported Discharge Team For Stroke: A West Australian Perspective

Not Applicable

Completed

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

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000128998
• Lead Sponsor: Sarah Morriss

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-02-04
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

Quantitative Arm: Early supported discharge team that treats stroke at the case study area health service
Qualitative arm : Staff member, manager or support worker for that ESD service

Exclusion Criteria

An ESD team or service outside the area health service in question

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Presence or absence of consensus components in the team including measures of number of disciplines, ratio of staff to 100 patients per year, presence of team coordinator, weekly meeting schedule, hospital base, patient eligibility criteria, liaison with inpatient staff and outcome measures collected. Rates of hospital length of stay for stroke patients, hospital readmission rates and inpatient length of stay will also be compared to the consensus guidelines.[Baseline]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
nderstanding of the ESD staff's point of view regarding the importance of the consensus components for their practice context. This will be collected by focus group sessions segmentalised into managers and staff from each hospital base in the service.[Baseline]