Analysis of Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes

This project involves an interdisciplinary stroke database of demographic variables and
clinical measures collected during routine acute care, inpatient rehabilitation admission and
discharge as well as follow up questionnaires at 6 month and 12 months to examine stroke
recovery.

Our aim is to observe and describe the relationships between impairments and function,
systematically characterize recovery patterns and examine short and long term rehabilitation
outcomes.

This project is purely observational, descriptive and non experimental. No rehabilitation
interventions or treatment procedures are being introduced, modified or studied.

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients who have a confirmed primary diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) as per
radiological assessment, met the criteria to be admitted onto Baker 17 (the New York
Presbyterian inpatient rehabilitation unit), and were administered standardized assessments
or rating scales as part of routine standard care will be included in the database.

Exclusion Criteria:

Persons with stroke who could not be given standard assessments or rating scales (eg.

due to fatigue, decreased attention span, global aphasia or refusal) will not be included
in data analysis.