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  1. Acute Hospital Admission for Stroke Is Characterised by Inactivity
  2. Setting the scene for the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable
  3. Economic evaluation of a phase III international randomised controlled trial of very early mobilisation after stroke (AVERT)
  4. Robotic-assisted training after stroke: RATULS advances science
  5. Two Days of Measurement Provides Reliable Estimates of Physical Activity Poststroke: An Observational Study
  6. Improving life after stroke needs global efforts to implement evidence-based physical activity pathways
  7. A Framework for Designing Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Facilities: A New Approach Using Interdisciplinary Value-Focused Thinking
  8. Utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale: Still too crude to be a truly patient-centric primary outcome measure?
  9. How can stroke care be improved for younger service users? A qualitative study on the unmet needs of younger adults in inpatient and outpatient stroke care in Australia
  10. Safety and efficacy of recovery-promoting drugs for motor function after stroke: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
  11. Breaking up sitting time after stroke – How much less sitting is needed to improve blood pressure after stroke (BUST-BP-dose): Protocol for a dose-finding study
  12. The personal and social experiences of community-dwelling younger adults after stroke in Australia: a qualitative interview study
  13. Are hospital single rooms best for all types of people ?
  14. Characterising Arm Recovery in People with Severe Stroke (CARPSS): protocol for a 12-month observational study of clinical, neuroimaging and neurophysiological biomarkers
  15. Rationale for Intervention and Dose Is Lacking in Stroke Recovery Trials: A Systematic Review
  16. Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke
  17. Statistical analysis plan (SAP) for the Very Early Rehabilitation in Speech (VERSE) after stroke trial: an international 3-arm clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of early, intensive, prescribed, direct aphasia therapy
  18. Additional structured physical activity does not improve walking in older people (> 60 years) undergoing inpatient rehabilitation: a randomised trial
  19. Breaking up sitting time after stroke (BUST-stroke)
  20. Frequent, short bouts of light-intensity exercises while standing decreases systolic blood pressure: Breaking Up Sitting Time after Stroke (BUST-Stroke) trial
  21. Early Mobilization After Stroke Is Not Associated With Cognitive Outcome
  22. Implementing a protocol for a research impact assessment of the Centre for Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Recovery
  23. The Post Ischaemic Stroke Cardiovascular Exercise Study: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of fitness training for brain health
  24. The AVERT MoCA Data: Scoring Reliability in a Large Multicenter Trial
  25. Authors’ response to Letter to the Editor: Divergence among researchers regarding the stratification of time after stroke is still a concern
  26. Advances in Stroke 2017
  27. The Energy Cost of Steady State Physical Activity in Acute Stroke
  28. Behavioral Mapping of Patient Activity to Explore the Built Environment During Rehabilitation
  29. Best practice guidelines for the measurement of physical activity levels in stroke survivors
  30. Efficacy and Safety of Individualized Coaching After Stroke: the LAST Study (Life After Stroke)
  31. Hospital ward design and neurological patient activity
  32. Upright activity and higher motor function may preserve bone mineral density within 6 months of stroke: a longitudinal study
  33. How to do health services research in stroke: A focus on performance measurement and quality improvement
  34. Validity of Multisensor Array for Measuring Energy Expenditure of an Activity Bout in Early Stroke Survivors
  35. Effects of Physical Activity on Poststroke Cognitive Function
  36. Standardized Measurement of Sensorimotor Recovery in Stroke Trials: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable
  37. Agreed Definitions and a Shared Vision for New Standards in Stroke Recovery Research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable Taskforce
  38. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial after stroke (AVERT): a Phase III, multicentre, randomised controlled trial
  39. Boredom in patients with acquired brain injuries during inpatient rehabilitation: a scoping review
  40. Moving Rehabilitation Research Forward: Developing Consensus Statements for Rehabilitation and Recovery Research
  41. Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India (ATTEND): a randomised controlled trial
  42. A comparative study of patients’ activities and interactions in a stroke unit before and after reconstruction—The significance of the built environment
  43. Editorial
  44. Standardized measurement of sensorimotor recovery in stroke trials: Consensus-based core recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable
  45. Agreed definitions and a shared vision for new standards in stroke recovery research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable taskforce
  46. Effectiveness of a shared team approach between nurses and doctors for improved risk factor management in survivors of stroke: a cluster randomized controlled trial
  47. How Physically Active Are People Following Stroke? Systematic Review and Quantitative Synthesis
  48. The potential health and economic impact of improving stroke care standards for Australia
  49. Reduced bone formation markers, and altered trabecular and cortical bone mineral densities of non-paretic femurs observed in rats with ischemic stroke: A randomized controlled pilot study
  50. Carers' experiences, needs and preferences during inpatient stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review of qualitative studies
  51. Early mobilisation and rehabilitation in intensive care unit—ready for implementation?
  52. Early rehabilitation after stroke
  53. Interventions for the uptake of evidence-based recommendations in acute stroke settings
  54. Reducing sedentary time and fat mass may improve glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in adults surviving 6 months after stroke: A phase I pilot study
  55. Are we armed with the right data? Pooled individual data review of biomarkers in people with severe upper limb impairment after stroke
  56. Early Mobilization after Stroke: Changes in Clinical Opinion Despite an Unchanging Evidence Base
  57. Erratum to "Are we armed with the right data? Pooled individual data review of biomarkers in people with severe upper limb impairment after stroke”
  58. Treatment and Outcomes of Working Aged Adults with Stroke: Results from a National Prospective Registry
  59. Breaking up sitting time after stroke (BUST-Stroke)
  60. Developing the Stroke Exercise Preference Inventory (SEPI)
  61. Additional weekend therapy may reduce length of rehabilitation stay after stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data
  62. Implementing a complex rehabilitation intervention in a stroke trial: a qualitative process evaluation of AVERT
  63. A randomized controlled trial of very early rehabilitation in speech after stroke
  64. Moving rehabilitation research forward: Developing consensus statements for rehabilitation and recovery research
  65. Energy Expenditure and Cost During Walking After Stroke: A Systematic Review
  66. Poststroke Physical Activity Levels No Higher in Rehabilitation than in the Acute Hospital
  67. Economic Evaluation Plan (EEP) for A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT): An international trial to compare the costs and cost-effectiveness of commencing out of bed standing and walking training (very early mobilization) within 24 h of stroke onse...
  68. Prespecified dose-response analysis for A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
  69. Reducing Sitting Time After Stroke: A Phase II Safety and Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial
  70. Upright activity within the first week after stroke is associated with better functional outcome and health-related quality of life: A Norwegian multi-site study
  71. The Scandinavian Stroke Scale is equally as good as The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in identifying 3-month outcome
  72. Is early rehabilitation a myth? Physical inactivity in the first week after myocardial infarction and stroke
  73. AVERT 2 (a very early rehabilitation trial, a very effective reproductive trigger): retrospective observational analysis of the number of babies born to trial staff
  74. An International Standard Set of Patient-Centered Outcome Measures After Stroke
  75. Exploring the Role of Accelerometers in the Measurement of Real World Upper-Limb Use After Stroke
  76. Prevalence of fatigue in patients 3 months after stroke and association with early motor activity: a prospective study comparing stroke patients with a matched general population cohort
  77. Could upright posture be harmful in the early stages of stroke? – Author's reply
  78. Very early mobilisation within 24 hours of stroke results in a less favourable outcome at 3 months [Author's response]
  79. Frühe Mobilisation nach Schlaganfall: Akzeptiert, aber noch limitierte Evidenz (Originaltitel: Early mobilization after stroke: Early adoption but limited evidence)
  80. Stroke Survivors' Experiences of Physical Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies
  81. Carers’ experiences, needs and preferences during inpatient stroke rehabilitation: a protocol for a systematic review of qualitative studies
  82. Sitting time and physical activity after stroke: physical ability is only part of the story
  83. Clinical feasibility of interactive motion-controlled games for stroke rehabilitation
  84. Exploring threats to generalisability in a large international rehabilitation trial (AVERT)
  85. Prospective observation of physical activity in critically ill patients who were intubated for more than 48 hours
  86. Efficacy and safety of very early mobilisation within 24 h of stroke onset (AVERT): a randomised controlled trial
  87. A Phase 1 Exercise Dose Escalation Study for Stroke Survivors with Impaired Walking
  88. Sitting and Activity Time in People With Stroke
  89. Hospital Differences in Motor Activity Early after Stroke: A Comparison of 11 Norwegian Stroke Units
  90. Circuit Class Therapy or Seven-Day Week Therapy for Increasing Rehabilitation Intensity of Therapy after Stroke (CIRCIT): A Randomized Controlled Trial
  91. Early Mobilization After Stroke: Early Adoption but Limited Evidence
  92. Evaluating the effects of increasing physical activity to optimize rehabilitation outcomes in hospitalized older adults (MOVE Trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  93. Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) for a Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT): An International Trial to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Commencing out of Bed Standing and Walking Training (Very Early Mobilization) within 24 h of Stroke Onset vs. ...
  94. How is physical activity monitored in people following stroke?
  95. The importance of cognition to quality of life after stroke
  96. Mobilization after thrombolysis (rtPA) within 24 hours of acute stroke: what factors influence inclusion of patients in A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)?
  97. Circuit Class Therapy and 7-Day-Week Therapy Increase Physiotherapy Time, But Not Patient Activity
  98. “Ward talk”: Nurses’ interaction with people with and without aphasia in the very early period poststroke
  99. Motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in people with chronic health conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  100. Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations for Stroke Survivors: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
  101. Physical Activity Early after Stroke and Its Association to Functional Outcome 3 Months Later
  102. A qualitative exploration of discharge destination as an outcome or a driver of acute stroke care
  103. Exercise Reduces Infarct Volume and Facilitates Neurobehavioral Recovery
  104. Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity of People with Stroke in Rehabilitation Hospitals
  105. Interdisciplinary Team Interactions in Stroke Units: Can Team Dynamics Influence Patient Outcomes from a Clinician’s Perspective
  106. Changes to Volumetric Bone Mineral Density and Bone Strength after Stroke: A Prospective Study
  107. Are Patients with Intracerebral Haemorrhage Disadvantaged in Hospitals?
  108. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in People With Stroke Living in the Community: A Systematic Review
  109. Physical inactivity, depression and anxiety in acute stroke
  110. Stroke Rehabilitation in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  111. An enriched environment increases activity in stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation in a mixed rehabilitation unit: a pilot non-randomized controlled trial
  112. Approaches to Economic Evaluations of Stroke Rehabilitation
  113. Representation of People with Aphasia in Randomized Controlled Trials of Acute Stroke Interventions
  114. Exercise after stroke - introduction
  115. Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-Mental State Examination are both valid cognitive tools in stroke
  116. How do comprehensive and acute stroke units differ? A critical review
  117. A mapping study on physical activity in stroke rehabilitation: Establishing the baseline
  118. Changes in Activity Levels in the First Month after Stroke
  119. Physical Activity Patterns of Acute Stroke Patients Managed in a Rehabilitation Focused Stroke Unit
  120. Measuring Activity Levels at an Acute Stroke Ward: Comparing Observations to a Device
  121. Early Physical Activity and Discharge Destination after Stroke: A Comparison of Acute and Comprehensive Stroke Unit Care
  122. Selection for inpatient rehabilitation after severe stroke: What factors influence rehabilitation assessor decision-making?
  123. Gender and being born overseas influences the amount of acute stroke therapy
  124. Changes in physical activity and related functional and disability levels in the first six months after stroke: A longitudinal follow-up study
  125. When Should Rehabilitation Begin after Stroke?
  126. Giant Steps for the Science of Stroke Rehabilitation
  127. More Outcomes than Trials: A Call for Consistent Data Collection across Stroke Rehabilitation Trials
  128. Accessing inpatient rehabilitation after acute severe stroke
  129. Reply
  130. Physical, cognitive and social activity levels of stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation within a mixed rehabilitation unit
  131. Cutting a long story short: Reaction times in acute stroke are associated with longer term cognitive outcomes
  132. Harnessing experience-dependent plasticity for CNS repair and regeneration
  133. Physical Therapists' Guideline Adherence on Early Mobilization and Intensity of Practice at Dutch Acute Stroke Units: A Country-Wide Survey
  134. Exploring the Efficacy of Constraint in Animal Models of Stroke
  135. Enhancing physical activity in older adults receiving hospital based rehabilitation: a phase II feasibility study
  136. Organization of Care
  137. Early Mobilization Testing in Patients With Acute Stroke
  138. Changes in Fat Mass in Stroke Survivors: A Systematic Review
  139. Stroke management: updated recommendations for treatment along the care continuum
  140. Ultrasound Is a Reliable Measure of Muscle Thickness in Acute Stroke Patients, for Some, but Not All Anatomical Sites: A Study of the Intra-Rater Reliability of Muscle Thickness Measures in Acute Stroke Patients
  141. Translating the Use of An Enriched Environment Poststroke from Bench to Bedside: Study Design and Protocol Used to Test the Feasibility of Environmental Enrichment on Stroke Patients in Rehabilitation
  142. Physical Activity in Hospitalised Stroke Patients
  143. Stroke: Physical Fitness, Exercise, and Fatigue
  144. Exercise Preferences Are Different after Stroke
  145. Physical Fitness Training after Stroke, Time to Implement what we Know: More Research is Needed
  146. Circuit Class or Seven-Day Therapy for Increasing Intensity of Rehabilitation after Stroke: Protocol of the CIRCIT Trial
  147. Stroke Patients Do Not Need to be Inactive in the First Two-Weeks after Stroke: Results from a Stroke Unit Focused on Early Rehabilitation
  148. The effect of physical activity on cognitive function after stroke: a systematic review
  149. Bed Rest or Mobilization after rt-PA? A Case-Crossover Study of Factors Influencing Clinical Decision Making in Stroke Services
  150. Stepping towards Prevention of Bone Loss after Stroke: A Systematic Review of the Skeletal Effects of Physical Activity after Stroke
  151. Does evidence really matter? Professionals' opinions on the practice of early mobilization after stroke
  152. Response to Letter by Freeman et al Regarding Article, "Very Early Mobilization After Stroke Fast-Tracks Return to Walking: Further Results From the Phase II AVERT Randomized Controlled Trial"
  153. An Early Mobilization Protocol Successfully Delivers More and Earlier Therapy to Acute Stroke Patients
  154. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Short Cognitive Evaluation in a Large Stroke Trial
  155. Predictors of Poststroke Mobility: Systematic Review
  156. Patients' age as a determinant of care received following acute stroke: A systematic review
  157. Age and gender as predictors of allied health quality stroke care
  158. Demographic and stroke-related factors as predictors of quality of acute stroke care provided by allied health professionals
  159. Stroke rehabilitation
  160. ‘Better Wear Out Sheets than Shoes’: A Survey of 202 Stroke Professionals' Early Mobilisation Practices and Concerns
  161. Very Early Mobilization After Stroke Fast-Tracks Return to Walking: Further Results From the Phase II AVERT Randomized Controlled Trial
  162. Sehr frühe Mobilisation nach Schlaganfall
  163. Measuring the Quality of Dysphagia Management Practices following Stroke: A Systematic Review
  164. Early Mobilization After Stroke: An Example of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis of a Complex Intervention
  165. An Enriched Environment Improves Sensorimotor Function Post-Ischemic Stroke
  166. Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mass after Stroke: a Systematic Review
  167. An Investigation of the Neurophysiologic Effect of Tone-Reducing AFOs on Reflex Excitability in Subjects with Spasticity Following Stroke while Standing
  168. The Effect of Tone-Reducing Orthotic Devices on Soleus Muscle Reflex Excitability while Standing in Patients with Spasticity Following Stroke
  169. The NIH Stroke Scale Can Establish Cognitive Function after Stroke
  170. Very Early Rehabilitation or Intensive Telemetry after Stroke: A Pilot Randomised Trial
  171. The Modified Rankin Scale in Acute Stroke Has Good Inter-Rater-Reliability but Questionable Validity
  172. Physiotherapists should ensure their representation in measures of the quality of patient care
  173. Hemispatial Neglect and Rehabilitation in Acute Stroke
  174. Quality of life: An important outcome measure in a trial of very early mobilisation after stroke
  175. Very Early Versus Delayed Mobilization After Stroke
  176. Systematic Review of Process Indicators: Including Early Rehabilitation Interventions Used to Measure Quality of Acute Stroke Care
  177. Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke
  178. CONTRIBUTORS
  179. Very Early Mobilisation and Complications in the First 3 Months after Stroke: Further Results from Phase II of A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
  180. An Observational Study of Acute Stroke Care in Four Countries: The European Registers of Stroke Study
  181. The Therapy ‘Pill’: Achieving Treatment Dose Within a Rehabilitation Trial
  182. Commentary on Arias M & Smith L (2007) Early mobilization of acute stroke patients. Journal of Clinical Nursing 16, 282–288
  183. Not All Stroke Units Are the Same: A Comparison of Physical Activity Patterns in Melbourne, Australia, and Trondheim, Norway
  184. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial for Stroke (AVERT): Phase II Safety and Feasibility
  185. More options and better job security required in career paths of physiotherapist researchers: an observational study
  186. The effect of very early mobilisation after stroke on psychological well-being
  187. Economic Evaluation alongside a Phase II, Multi-Centre, Randomised Controlled Trial of Very Early Rehabilitation after Stroke (AVERT)
  188. What is spasticity? The discussion continues
  189. Changing practice for acute hemiplegic shoulder care: A best practice model
  190. Advancing rehabilitation clinical trials design
  191. Mobilisation ‘in Bed’ Is Not Mobilisation
  192. Little therapy, little physical activity: Rehabilitation within the first 14 days of organized stroke unit care
  193. Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke
  194. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
  195. Strapping the hemiplegic shoulder prevents development of pain during rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial
  196. Evolution of Brain Activation with Good and Poor Motor Recovery after Stroke
  197. Stand up and be counted: measuring time spent upright after hip fracture and comparison with community dwelling older people
  198. A Comparison of Single Words and Conversational Speech in Phonological Evaluation
  199. Motor Impairment and Recovery in the Upper Limb After Stroke: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Correlates
  200. We only treat what it occurs to us to assess: the importance of knowledge-based assessment
  201. Inactive and Alone: Physical Activity Within the First 14 Days of Acute Stroke Unit Care
  202. Does experience predict observational kinematic assessment accuracy?
  203. Training novice clinicians improves observation accuracy of the upper extremity after stroke
  204. Evidence-based practice
  205. A case for slow to recover rehabilitation services following severe acquired brain injury
  206. Changes in balance and locomotion measures during rehabilitation following stroke
  207. Balance and mobility outcomes for stroke patients: a comprehensive audit
  208. A New Test of Dynamic Standing Balance for Stroke Patients: Reliability, Validity and Comparison with Healthy Elderly
  209. Functional prediction post-stroke
  210. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Effect of a Task-Oriented Rehabilitation Program on Upper Extremity Recovery Following Motor Stroke: The ICARE Randomized Clinical Trial.
  211. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Minimum information about a spinal cord injury experiment: a proposed reporting standard for spinal cord injury experiments.