Analysis of the therapeutic interaction provided by a humanoid robot serving stroke survivors as a therapeutic assistant for arm rehabilitation.

To characterize a socially active humanoid robot's therapeutic interaction as a therapeutic assistant when providing arm rehabilitation (i.e., arm basis training (ABT) for moderate-to-severe arm paresis or arm ability training (AAT) for mild arm paresis) to stroke survivors when using the digital therapeutic system Evidence-Based Robot-Assistant in Neurorehabilitation (E-BRAiN) and to compare it to human therapists' interaction.

Feasibility, coverage, and inter-rater reliability of the assessment of therapeutic interaction by a humanoid robot providing arm rehabilitation to stroke survivors using the instrument THER-I-ACT.

The instrument THERapy-related InterACTion (THER-I-ACT) was developed to document therapeutic interactions comprehensively in the human therapist-patient setting. Here, we investigate whether the instrument can also reliably be used to characterise therapeutic interactions when a digital system with a humanoid robot as a therapeutic assistant is used. Seventeen stroke survivors receiving arm rehabilitation (i.

THERapy-Related InterACTion (THER-I-ACT) in Rehabilitation-Instrument Development and Inter-Rater Reliability.

To develop an instrument for the observation of therapeutic communication interactions during rehabilitation sessions and test its inter-rater reliability. The new instrument THER-I-ACT (THERapy-related Inter-ACTion) has been designed to assess both the frequency and timing of therapeutic interactions in the thematic fields information provision, feedback, other motivational interaction, and bonding. For this inter-rater reliability study, a sample of stroke survivors received arm rehabilitation as either arm ability training, arm basis training, or mirror therapy, or neglect training as individually indicated.

Medicare's new restrictions on rehabilitation admissions: impact on the elderly.

Objective: To measure the impact of Medicare's "75% rule" on readmission and death rates in elderly patients affected by the rule.

Design: Retrospective study of two cohorts, both aged > or =65, discharged from a single medical center, from acute care with diagnoses excluded by the 75% rule. Group 1 (n = 4107) represented discharges in the year before the rule's enforcement and group 2 (n = 3893) for the rule's inaugural year.

[Correlation between the prevalence of schizophrenia and the sociodemographic status in different areas of Copenhagen].

Introduction: The results of a statistical study of the prevalence of schizophrenia are presented. The study was designed to determine whether the prevalence of schizophrenic patients admitted to Copenhagen Community Hospital (KH) in 1994 was higher in the low sociodemographic areas of Copenhagen and lower in the high sociodemographic areas. The Jarman's underprivileged area score (UPA score) was used as the sociodemographic index.