title: The triage of stroke rehabilitation.
abstract: In this paper we describe the use of triage to select patients for a trial in which a comparison was made of the effectiveness of a stroke unit and medical units in the rehabilitation of acute stroke. Completing the triage for hospital admission of stroke enabled an estimate to be made of the size of a stroke unit per unit of population.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D011897:Random Allocation; D040841:Resource Allocation; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation; D014218:Triage