Caregivers: Do They Make a Difference to Patient Recovery in Subacute Stroke?

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between caregiver nature and availability, and rehabilitation outcomes in subacute stroke.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Four community rehabilitation hospitals.

Rehabilitation Outcomes After Inpatient Rehabilitation for Lower Extremity Amputations in Patients With Diabetes.

Objective: To identify factors associated with functional gain, discharge destination, and long-term survival after inpatient rehabilitation in patients with lower extremity amputation and diabetes.

Design: Retrospective medical records review.

Setting: All community hospitals.

The synergistic effect of functional status and comorbidity burden on mortality: a 16-year survival analysis.

Objectives: The relationship between disability and comorbidity on mortality is widely perceived as additive in clinical models of frailty.

Design: National data were retrospectively extracted from medical records of community hospital.

Data Sources: There were of 12,804 acutely-disabled patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore rehabilitation community hospitals from 1996 through 2005 were followed up for death till 31 December 2011.

Factors and trade-offs with rehabilitation effectiveness and efficiency in newly disabled older persons.

Objective: To determine the factors for rehabilitation effectiveness (REs) and rehabilitation efficiency (REy) among newly disabled older persons and if there is any trade-off between REs and REy.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Rehabilitation hospitals.

Factors associated with nursing home placement of all patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore community hospitals from 1996 to 2005: a disease stratified analysis.

Objectives: To (1) identify social and rehabilitation predictors of nursing home placement, (2) investigate the association between effectiveness and efficiency in rehabilitation and nursing home placement of patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation from 1996 to 2005 by disease in Singapore.

Design: National data were retrospectively extracted from medical records of community hospital.

Data Sources: There were 12,506 first admissions for rehabilitation in four community hospitals.

Trends in length of stay, functional outcomes, and discharge destination stratified by disease type for inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore community hospitals from 1996 to 2005.

Objective: To determine the trends in length of stay (LOS), rehabilitation functional outcome, and discharge destination of patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation from 1996 to 2005 and stratified by disease in Singapore.

Design: Retrospective national data were extracted from medical records of community-based inpatient rehabilitation admissions in Singapore from 1996 to 2005.

Setting: Four community hospitals.

Socio-demographic and clinical profile of admissions to community hospitals in Singapore from 1996 to 2005: a descriptive study.

Introduction: Little data is available on community hospital admissions. We examined the differences between community hospitals and the annual trends in sociodemographic characteristics of all patient admissions in Singaporean community hospitals over a 10- year period from 1996 to 2005.

Materials And Methods: Data were manually extracted from medical records of 4 community hospitals existent in Singapore from 1996 to 2005.