(HealthDay News) — Few people who’ve suffered a stroke or brain injury are being offered top-quality, hospital-based rehab, a new study says.
Only about 22% of patients who’ve suffered a stroke, brain injury or spinal cord injury are sent to inpatient rehabilitation following their hospitalization, researchers reported June 10 in the journal Neurology Open Access. That includes fewer than 1 in 4 stroke patients and 1 in 7 patients with a brain injury, researchers said.
“Inpatient rehabilitation facilities provide more intensive rehabilitation care, usually more than three hours per day, than skilled nursing facilities,” said senior researcher Dr. Farhaan Vahidy, associate vice president of research at Memorial Hermann in Houston. CONTINUE