Neurological/Neurosurgical Early Rehabilitation – A Matched Pair Study

Objective: Neurological/neurosurgical early rehabilitation is indicated in patients with a Barthel-index of 30 points according to Schoenle. Apart from this indicator, further characteristics of patients who profit favour of such a program are still unknown. Therefore, we compared characteristics of patients in a neurological/neurosurgical early rehabilitation setting with inpatients in a multidisciplinary setting. Methods: To determine patient characteristics for neurological/neurosurgical early rehabilitation in an acute hospital setting. A case-controlled comparison with matched pairs. Data were collected thr…