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The Development Of Department Of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation A New Private General Hospital, Lin-Fen Hsieh, Po-Wei Lin, Tzyh-Cherng Yang, Jung-Sui Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The set-up and development of the rehabilitation epartment in a new, middle-sized hospital is an interesting subject and worth to be studied. We prospectively investigated the inpatients and out-patients who had received ehabilitation therapy during the one year period from the opening of Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Sep 3, 1992, to Aug 31, 1993. The patients' data were analyzed by three major categories: (1) the sources of the patients, (2) the diagnosis of the diseases (ICD-10), (3) the factors relating to the growth of the rehabilitation department. The results showed: (1) mostof our patients came via the introduction …