Publications by authors named "Mark M J Tan"

Objective: To determine the proportion of patients who return to work after inpatient stroke rehabilitation and to identify demographic, clinical, and functional predictive factors for its success.

Design: A retrospective follow-up study of patients with stroke who were premorbidly working and had completed inpatient rehabilitation in a large metropolitan hospital between January 2016 and December 2017. They underwent a telephone interview at 2 years post discharge.

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Objective: To determine and compare the effectiveness of robotic therapy with a patient-guided suspension system for stroke rehabilitation using a 7-days-a-week model of care with that of conventional rehabilitation.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation unit of an acute general hospital.

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Given the complex multitude of Parkinson's disease (PD) symptoms, caregiving for PD patients can be highly demanding. Our study was aimed to investigate the characteristics of PD patients related to different levels of caregiver burden. This cross-sectional study recruited 104 idiopathic PD patient-caregiver pairs.

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