Evaluation of Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Clinical Practice Guideline

POPULATION HEALTHCARE

Table of Contents
Abstract......................................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation of the clinical practices guideline............................................................................3
Summary....................................................................................................................................6
Reference list..............................................................................................................................8
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Abstract
The study mainly comprises of the evaluation and the analysis of the healthcare practice
guideline for the post-stroke rehabilitation patient. The Post-stroke rehabilitation guideline
comprises of specific scope and objective that will be evaluated by the Appraisal of Guideline
for Research and Evaluation or the AGREED system("WHO | World Health Organization",
2018). Additionally, different components of the guideline like stakeholder's involvement,
rigor development, and assessment and management strategies will be analyzed in the study.
The AGREED system is used to analyze the different perspective of the clinical post-stroke
rehabilitation guideline for the Post-stroke rehabilitation patient. This analysis may help in
effective improvement of the guideline that may help the medical practitioners to implement
the action plan in an efficient manner.
Introduction
In the United States of America, more than 795,000 people suffer from stroke according to
the data of (National Institute of Neurological disorder). It is observed that most of the
patients in the post-stroke stage suffer from depression that enhances the physiological
problems in the body. Minimizing this condition is the responsibility of the Government.
Effective clinical practice guidelines are there those help in the implementation of a proper
action plan to reduce the depression in Stroke patients. The post-stroke rehabilitation clinical
practice guideline is developed by the health care and policy research institute. Subsequently,
with time, the post-stroke rehabilitation guideline has been upgraded according to the need.
This guideline is prepared mainly for the medical professionals that will help in enhancing
their quality of service. This study mainly focuses on the review of the clinical practice
guideline of Stroke rehabilitation patient in community service hospital setting of California.
Moreover, evaluation of the clinical practice guideline will be done by using the AGREE
system of evaluation. The AGREE system is the Appraisal of Guidelines For research and
Evaluation instrument that is developed with the purpose of holistic evaluation of the clinical
practice guideline system in the health care setting. Subsequently, the evaluation will be
followed by a summary that will include the analysis of the evaluation. The summary section
will represent a critical analysis of the results those are found in the evaluation.
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