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Management Topics in Medical Rehabilitation
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Management Topics in Medical Rehabilitation

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 2011

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Iuly Treger

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Guest Editor
Department of Rehabilitation, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
Interests: management in medical rehabilitation; quality assessment in rehabilitation; stroke rehabilitation
Dr. Amit Kosto

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1. Department of Internal Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Interests: rehabilitation; physical medicine

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The main goals of medical rehabilitation are to minimize the functional consequences of health troubles and to improve the quality of patients' life. Every single medical situation requires an original multi-professional rehabilitation approach to achieve those goals in an optimal way. In professional language, it is usual to determine each single "event" as an "Individual Rehabilitation project".

The whole joint "rehabilitation journey" of a patient, family, rehabilitation doctor, and staff usually begins in the acute medical department, continues to a sub-acute rehabilitation setting, and finales at home in outpatient community clinics. It can be defined as a "Rehabilitation Management Plan", which must follow approved documents and guidelines. Those, indeed, are influenced by the specific healthcare system but also based on scientific studies' results. Introduction, including scientific background and highlighting the importance of this research area.

We are pleased to invite you to be part of this important goal and to provide your studies to this Special Issue.

  • This Special Issue aims to contribute to the development of evidence-based knowledge in order to improve rehabilitation management principles in various healthcare systems. It is extremely important for the development of effective clinical practice for growing rehabilitation demands around the globe.
  • In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
  • Management and clinical aspects of different rehabilitation inpatient and outpatient settings.
  • Rehabilitation quality and effectiveness assessment tools.
  • Rehabilitation staff, including rehabilitation doctors' professional activity analysis.
  • Studies, based on local and national medical rehabilitation experience.
  • Comparative studies of different management models and protocols in the same area.
  • Cross-sectional studies for cultural adaptation in rehabilitation in specific areas and countries.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Iuly Treger
Dr. Amit Kosto
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • rehabilitation
  • outcome measures
  • rehabilitation management
  • rehabilitation settings
  • quality
  • effectiveness
  • inpatient rehabilitation
  • outpatient rehabilitation
  • community-based rehabilitation
  • disability

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Psychological Health in Late Effects of Poliomyelitis: Ten-Year Follow-Up
by Shimon Shiri, Anat Marmor, Morad Jalagil, Hagai Levine, Isabella Schwartz and Zeev Meiner
Healthcare 2023, 11(24), 3144; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11243144 - 11 Dec 2023
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Background: Individuals with late effects of poliomyelitis (LEoP) cope with various physical and psychological symptoms throughout their entire life which become more severe as they are ageing. Objectives: To perform a 10-year follow-up of the functional status and levels of psychological health of [...] Read more.
Background: Individuals with late effects of poliomyelitis (LEoP) cope with various physical and psychological symptoms throughout their entire life which become more severe as they are ageing. Objectives: To perform a 10-year follow-up of the functional status and levels of psychological health of individuals with LEoP and to examine the associations of hope levels, work status, health perceptions, and life satisfaction with functional and psychological changes. Design: A within-subject 10-year follow-up study. Participants: Eighty-two individuals with LEoP who participated in a previous study 10 years ago. Methods: Outcome measures included the functional status of individuals with LEoP assessed by the activities of daily living (ADL) questionnaire, emotional distress based on the Global Health Questionnaire (GHQ), hope based on the Hope Scale, life satisfaction as measured by the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and subjective health perception. The McNemar test, paired t-test, Spearman’s correlation coefficient, and linear regression were used for statistical analysis. Results: The mean age was 66.9 ± 8.5 years with a male–female ratio of 0.52. A significant functional deterioration was noticed during the follow-up years. Yet, the functional deterioration was not associated with changes in psychological health. Psychological health was associated with elevated levels of hope and life satisfaction. Individuals with LEoP who continued to work demonstrated higher psychological health, higher levels of hope, and greater life satisfaction. Conclusions: Individuals with LEoP demonstrated significant psychological health, manifested in their ability to block emotional distress and maintain life satisfaction despite the deterioration in their functional status. Hope and psychological health were associated with increased life satisfaction. Work appeared to be a significant source of psychological health in this population. Full article
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A Review of Current Perspectives on Motoric Insufficiency Rehabilitation following Pediatric Stroke
by Hristina Colovic, Dragan Zlatanovic, Vesna Zivkovic, Milena Jankovic, Natasa Radosavljevic, Sinisa Ducic, Jovan Ducic, Jasna Stojkovic, Kristina Jovanovic and Dejan Nikolic
Healthcare 2024, 12(2), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12020149 - 09 Jan 2024
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Pediatric stroke (PS) is an injury caused by the occlusion or rupture of a blood vessel in the central nervous system (CNS) of children, before or after birth. Hemiparesis is the most common motoric deficit associated with PS in children. Therefore, it is [...] Read more.
Pediatric stroke (PS) is an injury caused by the occlusion or rupture of a blood vessel in the central nervous system (CNS) of children, before or after birth. Hemiparesis is the most common motoric deficit associated with PS in children. Therefore, it is important to emphasize that PS is a significant challenge for rehabilitation, especially since the consequences may also appear during the child’s growth and development, reducing functional capacity. The plasticity of the child’s CNS is an important predecessor of recovery, but disruption of the neural network, specific to an immature brain, can have harmful and potentially devastating consequences. In this review, we summarize the complexity of the consequences associated with PS and the possibilities and role of modern rehabilitation. An analysis of the current literature reveals that Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy, forced-use therapy, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional electrical stimulation and robot-assisted therapy have demonstrated at least partial improvements in motor domains related to hemiparesis or hemiplegia caused by PS, but they are supported with different levels of evidence. Due to the lack of randomized controlled studies, the optimal rehabilitation treatment is still debatable, and therefore, most recommendations are primarily based on expert consensuses, opinions and an insufficient level of evidence. Full article
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