《Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice》 ›› 2017, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (7): 855-858.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-9771.2017.07.026

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Effect of Rehabilitation Clinical Pathway

LI Man, ZHU Ping, CHEN Shuang, JIN Feng, ZHANG Shu-yan   

  1. Beijing Bo'ai Hospital, China Rehabilitation Research Center, Beijing 10068, China
  • Received:2016-07-14 Published:2017-07-25 Online:2017-08-07
  • Contact: Correspondence to ZHANG Shu-yan. E-mail: zsy0227@126.com

Abstract: ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of clinical pathway on inpatients for rehabilitation. MethodsThe hospital expense, the expense for medicine and length of stay in hospital were compared in patients with cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, spinal cord injury and spastic cerebral palsy before (January 1st, 2012 to April 30th, 2013) and after (May 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2015) clinical pathway implementation, 50 inpatients for each disease, totally 200 patients. ResultsThe length of stay in hospital reduced after of clinical pathway implementation, in all the diseases (t>5.226, P<0.001), with the decrease of hospital expense for cerebral infarction (t=3.327, P<0.001). There was no significant increase in any expense in the disease (t<1.777, P>0.05). ConclusionThe implementation of rehabilitation clinical pathway can reduce the length of stay in hospital for the patients rehabilitation in hospital, without increasing their cost.

Key words: rehabilitation, clinical pathway, length of stay

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