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Critical analysis of studies evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury

 

作者: Walter High,   Corwin Boake,   L Don Lehmkubl,  

 

期刊: Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation  (OVID Available online 1995)
卷期: Volume 10, issue 1  

页码: 14-26

 

ISSN:0885-9701

 

年代: 1995

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: effectiveness of rehabilitation;traumatic brain injury;outcome studies;experimental design

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

This article critiques recent studies of the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury with respect to how well they have controlled for the nature and severity of initial brain injury, time since injury, and preinjury characteristics of the subjects. These variables potentially confound the results of studies attempting to determine whether rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury results in improved outcomes and whether it is cost effective. To advance this field of research, investigators must be more uniform and explicit in the characterization of their subjects with respect to severity of injury and preinjury characteristics and more uniform in their selection of functional outcome measures, and they must use control groups of patients who receive few services or alternative treatments

 

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