| |
| |
| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Evaluating rehabilitation medicine: effects on survival, function, and home care | | Author(s) | Ron L Evans, Richard T Connis, Jodie K Haselkorn |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 16, no 3, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 35-54 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Physical disabilities ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Death ; Domiciliary services ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to measure the clinical impact of rehabilitation on adults diagnosed with a disabling disorder in four major diagnostic groups (nervous, circulatory, musculoskeletal, and injury). To summarise the current knowledge in this area, a meta-analysis of rehabilitation studies was also completed. Specific objectives of the clinical trial were to determine the effects of in-patient rehabilitation on: survival, function, home care and related variables such as family function and use of health care resources. Eighty-five patients hospitalised for the first time with a disabling condition were randomly assigned to in-patient rehabilitation or to out-patient follow-up in which the usual medical services were provided but no scheduled rehabilitative therapies were offered. To compare the two groups, analyses of covariance were conducted for functional ability, health care use, survival, health status, personal adjustment, and family function. The study found no significant treatment effects at 6 or 12 months for any of the variables under study using analyses of covariance. Rehabilitation did cost significantly more than medical care, primarily due to the cost of in-patient services. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971209211 A |
| Classmark | LM: BN: C4: CA: CW: N: QLD: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|
|