[The continuum of stroke care - a way to make it more cost effective].

A stroke is the most common cause for disability in the adult population. Rehabilitation is the tool to reduce the consequences of impairment. However, the continuum of stroke care is fragmented and rehabilitation is often lacking and unevenly distributed along the care pathway.

[Evidence-based methods in the clinical practice in updated Swedish national stroke guidelines].

Stroke rehabilitation has often been based on tradition instead of evidence-based methods in the clinical practice. The recently updated Swedish national stroke guidelines have emphasized the amount of evidence-based stroke rehabilitation that is expected to be implemented in clinical practice. The most important recommendations in regarding stroke rehabilitation are the early support discharge, a structured follow-up at the subacute stage for identifying unmet rehabilitation needs and high intensity task-specific training from early to chronic phases.