"Can you hear me now?" Video conference coping strategies and experience during COVID-19 and beyond.

Background: During COVID-19 the workforce quickly adapted to using existing video-conferencing tools in order to work from home.

Objective: To explore use and experience of remote video-facilitated work practices in response to COVID-19: termed 'COVID Response Zoom-style Interactions (CRAZI)'.

Methods: A cross sectional study via a 66-item online survey for health and medical research and education sector workers.

Timing and Dose of Upper Limb Motor Intervention After Stroke: A Systematic Review.

This systematic review aimed to investigate timing, dose, and efficacy of upper limb intervention during the first 6 months poststroke. Three online databases were searched up to July 2020. Titles/abstracts/full-text were reviewed independently by 2 authors.

Factors associated with time to independent walking recovery post-stroke.

Background: Past studies have inconsistently identified factors associated with independent walking post-stroke. We investigated the relationship between pre-stroke factors and factors collected acutely after stroke and number of days to walking 50 m unassisted using data from A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT).

Methods: The outcome was recovery of 50 m independent walking, tested from 24 hours to 3 months post-stroke.

Early Mobilization After Stroke: Do Clinical Practice Guidelines Support Clinicians' Decision-Making?

Early mobilization, out-of-bed activity, is a component of acute stroke unit care; however, stroke patient heterogeneity requires complex decision-making. Clinically credible and applicable CPGs are needed to support and optimize the delivery of care. In this study, we are specifically exploring the role of clinical practice guidelines to support individual patient-level decision-making by stroke clinicians about early mobilization post-stroke.

Look closer: The multidimensional patterns of post-stroke burden behind the modified Rankin Scale.

Background: The utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale, representing patient perspectives of quality of life, is a newly proposed measure to improve the interpretability of the modified Rankin Scale. Despite obvious advantages, such weighting imperfectly reflects the multidimensional patterns of post-stroke burden.

Aims: To investigate multidimensional patterns of post-stroke burden formed by individual domains of Assessment of Quality of Life and Barthel Index for each modified Rankin Scale category.

Early mobilisation post-stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data.

Purpose: To investigate the safety and efficacy of early mobilisation (EM) compared to usual care by meta-analysing individual participant data (IPD).

Materials And Methods: IPD were sought from randomised controlled trials comparing out-of-bed mobilisation starting within 48 h from stroke onset to usual care for acute stroke patients. Six trials were sourced from a recent Cochrane review.

Utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale: Still too crude to be a truly patient-centric primary outcome measure?

Background: The utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale (UW-mRS) is an outcome measure recently proposed to improve statistical efficiency and interpretability of the mRS. Statistical properties of the UW-mRS have been well investigated, but construct validity has yet to be established.

Aims: To investigate the construct validity of the UW-mRS as a primary outcome measure by assessing variability in utility values within and between mRS categories, over time post-stroke, and by different derivation methods.