Time Spent at Home Poststroke
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Implication
Prospective analysis demonstrates that increased home-time correlates with better recovery in stroke patients, suggesting a new outcome measure.
Key Points
- This research aims to assess 'home-time' as a more reliable indicator of functional recovery post-stroke.
- Prospectively collected data from the GAIN International trial
- Used analysis of variance with Bonferroni contrasts on modified Rankin scale categories
- Included 1717 patients with complete outcome data from an initial total of 1788
- Increasing home-time was significantly associated with improved modified Rankin scale scores (P<0.0001)
- This positive relationship was consistent across all modified Rankin scale grades except for grades 4 to 5
Cite This Study
Quinn et al. (2007) studied this question.