| Methods |
Design: "prospective RCT" |
| Participants |
"The interview group was targeted from 200 stroke patients who participated and were discharged from the prospective randomised controlled trial between 1995 to 1997. All cases were confirmed to be first onset by clinical and CT or MRI diagnosis. This did not include less severe or very severe cases" |
| Interventions |
"The control group (n = 100) only received conventional neurological treatment, while the rehabilitation group underwent an early rehabilitation program commencing on an average of 9 days after diagnosis with bedside exercises, in addition to the treatment" |
| Outcomes |
"The interview was conducted in the form of calls and letters, with the time of interview being 18 months after treatment. The interview content included the patient’s survival, functional mobility, environment patient was mobile in, ADL ability, quality of life (QOL) and any secondary injury.The latter included joint pain, joint range of motion, limb or hand swelling, muscle atrophy, pressure ulcers, lung and urinary tract infection, with 1 point given for presence of secondary injury and no points for the absence of injury" |
| Notes |
Original study translated from Chinese to English. This study is a follow‐up from an earlier study undertaken in 1998. British Library unable to supply this earlier publication, and, despite extensive searching, the reviewers have not been able to find any other known UK locations for it. Clarification of intervention from the earlier RCT was sought from the study authors but was not obtained |
