Adjusted-Barthel-Index – An Indicator for Patients in Early Rehabilitation

Objective: Early rehabilitation describes the earliest possible rehabilitative treatment for patients from various medical fields with serious acute health disorders in an acute medical setting. While early rehabilitation is explicitly described as a part of the acute hospital treatment in Germany by law, indicators for early rehabilitation are still unknown. Therefore we compared characteristics of patients in an early rehabilitation setting with patients in a multidisciplinary setting to identify indicators for early rehabilitation. To determine indicators for early rehabilitation in patients in an acute hospi…