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Functional Recovery And Caregiver Support Of Stroke Patients Admitted For Rehabilitation In Singapore Community Hospitals (1996 To 2005), Gerald Koh
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Post-acute rehabilitation is the active process where disabled persons realize their optimal recovery potential through therapy after discharge from acute hospital admissions. Community hospitals which are mainly run by family physicians in Singapore provide post-acute rehabilitation, and are similar to US inpatient rehabilitation facilities and Canada’s specialty rehabilitation facilities. This thesis is based on a national dataset of all admissions into community hospitals in Singapore from 1996 to 2005 (ten years) manually extracted from medical records of four sites by the PhD candidate. Four chapters are presented: (1) a systematic review of the rehabilitation indices from published studies and their …