1. Characteristics and staffing of ESD trials.
| Trial | Setting | Key features | Control service base | ESD staffing (whole time equivalents for caseload of 100 patients/year; median and range) | |||||||
| Medical | Nursing | Physio | OT | SALT | Assistant | Other | Total | ||||
| ESD team co‐ordination and delivery | |||||||||||
| Adelaide 2000 | Urban | PHMR Goals documented |
Rehabilitation unit (stroke and neurological) | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.25 |
0.4 |
Social work | 2.6 |
| Aveiro 2016 | Mixed | Tailored | Mixture (stroke unit, case managers in community‐based team) | 0.8 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | Psychology | 3.2 |
| Belfast 2004 | Mixed | PHMR | Mixture (medical, geriatric, stroke unit) | 0.1 | 0 | 1.5 |
1.0 |
0.5 |
1.5 | Secretary Social work |
4.6 |
| Copenhagen 2009 | Urban | Tailored | Stroke unit | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd |
| London 1997 | Urban | Equipment store | Mixture (medical, stroke unit) | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ‐ | 3.1 |
| Manchester 2001 | Urban | Mixture (medical, stroke team or unit) | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | ‐ | nd | |
| Montreal 2000 | Urban | Mixture (medical neurology) | 0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ‐ | Dietitian | 2.7 | |
| Newcastle 1997 | Urban | Envt visit Key worker 7‐day input PHMR |
Mixture (medical, geriatric) |
0 |
0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
Secretary Social work Carers |
2.8 |
| Stockholm 1998 | Urban | Case manager Patient diary |
Stroke unit | 0.03 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | ‐ | ‐ | 2.6 |
| West Denmark | Mixed | Tailored | Neurorehabilitation centres (3) | ? | 0 | ? | ? | 0 | 0 | 0 | ? |
| ESD team co‐ordination | |||||||||||
| Bergen 2014 | Urban | Day Unit ESD Home‐based ESD |
Stroke unit | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd |
| Oslo 2000 | Urban | Key worker Community services |
Stroke unit | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | ‐ | nd |
| Trondheim 2000 | Urban | Key worker Team Community services |
Stroke unit | 0.12 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0 | ‐ | ‐ | 3.7 |
| Trondheim 2004 | Rural | Stroke unit | 0.12 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0 | ‐ | ‐ | 3.7 | |
|
10 urban 3 mixed 1 rural |
7 stroke unit 5 mixed service 2 neurorehabilitation unit |
0.10 (0 to 0.12) |
0 (0 to 1.2) |
1.0 (0.7 to 1.5) |
1.0 (0.7 to 1.6) |
0.3 (0 to 0.5) |
0.4 (0 to 1.5) |
‐ |
3.1 (2.6 to 4.6) |
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| No ESD team | |||||||||||
| Adelaide 2016 | Urban | Caregiver‐mediated exercises combined with tele‐rehabilitation services | Stroke unit | nd | nd | nd? | nd | nd | nd | ‐ | nd |
| Akershus 1998 | Mixed | Range of community rehabilitation services | Stroke unit | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | ‐ | nd |
| ATTEND pilot 2015 | Mixed | Family‐mediated rehabilitation with mostly remote follow‐up | Stroke unit | nd | nd | < 1.0 | nd | nd | nd | ‐ | nd |
| Bangkok 2002 | Urban | Red Cross volunteers | Stroke unit | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | ‐ | nd |
MDT mtg: multidisciplinary team meeting N: number of participants nd: no comparable data OT: occupational therapy PHMR: patient‐held medical record physio: physiotherapy SALT: speech and language therapy