“The [project’s] aim is understanding what people need after a stroke, what’s their experience, and to understand the gaps in care. Led by community, we can build a stroke recovery yarning tool to ensure people have control over how they go about their recovery,” Dr Janssen said. Ya...
Acute ischemic stroke is inadequately treated in the USA and worldwide due to a lengthy history of neuroprotective drug failures in clinical trials. The majority of victims must endure life-long disabilities that not only affect their livelihood, but also have an enormous societal economic impact. ...
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Gary S. Collins NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK Gary S. Collins Contributions S.S. designed the study and analysed the data and...
Positioning the six-month review in the recovery process post-stroke: the ideology of personal responsibility. Health Soc Care Community. 2019;27(1):249–59. 16. Shannon RL, Forster A, Hawkins RJ. A qualitative exploration of self-reported unmet need one year after stroke. Disabil Rehabil. ...
Emerging evidence suggests that post-stroke aphasia severity depends on the integrity of the brain beyond the lesion. While measures of lesion anatomy and brain integrity combine synergistically to explain aphasic symptoms, substantial interindividual va
Group statistics of demographic variables are provided in the lower part of Table 2. Participant enrollment and the study overview are presented in Fig. 2. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) recordings were obtained during routine diagnostics and used to extract lesion charateristics (Fig. 3). ...
Information about recovery, dependency, health-related quality of life, dwelling, secondary prevention medications, use of health-care and rehabilitation facilities, stroke recurrence, and cost was obtained in all followed-up cases. The study was approved by the scientific ethics committee of the ...
the central core of tissue in this affected area progresses toward irreversible damage, known as the area of infarction. However, the surrounding tissue, referred to as the penumbra, does not experience immediate cell death and has the potential for recovery if early reperfusion is achieved.[24]...
Descriptive statistics were used to analyse quantitative data; a thematic framework approach was used to analyse qualitative data. Both studies received ethical approval prior to commencement. Results Study 1 Feasibility: 13 (59.1%) of 22 potentially eligible stroke survivors consented; aged 66 (median...
The prevalence of stroke was assessed using descriptive statistics and is reported as the percentage with the associated 95% confidence interval (95% CI). The p for trend was calculated using the chi-square test for trend. The chi-square test and Student’s t-test were used to compare ...