Management of patients with stroke: rehabilitation, prevention and management of complications, and discharge planning

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REMIT OF THE GUIDELINE

This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the management of stroke rehabilitation. The aim of this national guideline is to assist individual clinicians, primary care teams, hospital departments, and hospitals to optimise their management of stroke patients with an emphasis on the first 12 months after stroke

Guideline No 118
ISBN 978 1 905813 63 6, June 2010

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	A series of information leaflets on orthoptic problems following Stroke or Brain Injury have been produced by NHS QIS inconjunction with the British & Irish Orthoptic Society.

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