Development of a prognostic scale for severely hemiplegic stroke patients in a rehabilitation hospital

There are many goals involved with stroke rehabilitation. The main goals are: (1) the ability to walk; (2) to improve the activities of daily living (ADL); and (3) to return home after recovery. To date, different scales have been proposed in stroke rehabilitation for the prediction of the prognosis in terms of the ability to walk [1 –3], ability to carry out ADL [4–6], duration of hospital stay [7–9], and destination [10]. However, most of these methods are aimed at predicting a single goal, and as a result, they allowed for the extraction of factors that are important for the prognosis of the concerned goals, but did not allow for determination of the patients' characteristics or overall condition.
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Source Type: research