Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Ownership Type Yields Mixed Performances on Quality Measures.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ownership type on IRF-Quality Reporting Program (IRF-QRP) measures.

Design: Cross-sectional, observational design.

Setting: We used 2 Centers for Medicare and Medicare publicly-available, facility-level data sources: (1) IRF compare files and (2) IRF rate setting files - final rule.

Intranasally applied human olfactory mucosa neural progenitor cells migrate to damaged brain regions.

Aim: To determine if intranasally administered olfactory mucosa progenitor cells (OMPCs) migrate to damaged areas of brain.

Materials & Methods: Rowett Nude (RNU) adult rats were injured using the Marmarou model then 2 weeks later received intranasally-delivered human OMPC. After 3 weeks, rats were sacrificed and brain sectioned.

Phase IIB Randomized Trial on the Use of 4-Aminopyridine in Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Objective: To determine the safety and efficacy of orally delivered 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) in persons with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) >6 months from initial diagnosis.

Design: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study.

Setting: Tertiary care clinical outpatient program.