Fig 1.
Overview of measurement timing.
T = time; BL = baseline; CD = clinical discharge; m = month.
Table 1.
Patient characteristics upon inclusion in the study.
Fig 2.
Boxplots of the FM data per measurement moment for each of the three groups.
FM = Fugl Meyer Motor Assessment; TBL = Baseline; TCD = clinical discharge; T3m = (= TCD + 3 months); T6m (= TCD + 6 months); T9m (= TCD + 9 months);T12m (= TCD + 12 months). Circle = outlier value; Asterisk = far out value.
Fig 3.
Boxplots of the grip strength data per measurement moment for each of the three groups.
TBL = Baseline; TCD = Clinical Discharge; T3m = (= TCD + 3 months); T6m (= TCD + 6 months); T9m (= TCD + 9 months);T12m (= TCD + 12 months). Circles = outlier value; Asterisk = far out value.
Fig 4.
Boxplots of the ARAT data per measurement moment for each of the three groups.
ARAT = Action Research Arm Test; TBL = Baseline; TCD = Clinical Discharge; T3m = (= TCD + 3 months); T6m (= TCD + 6 months); T9m (= TCD + 9 months);T12m (= TCD + 12 months). Circles = outlier value; Asterisk = far out value.
Fig 5.
Boxplots of the ABILHAND results per measurement moment for each of the three groups.
TBL = Baseline; TCD = Clinical Discharge; T3m = (= TCD + 3 months); T6m (= TCD + 6 months); T9m (= TCD + 9 months);T12m (= TCD + 12 months). Circles = outlier value; Asterisk = far out value.
Table 2.
Number (and %) of patients per subgroup whose arm-hand capacity and/or performance either deteriorated (more than 5% relative to clinical discharge performance), or remained equal or improved during the post-rehabilitation phase.
Table 3.
Rate of improvement over time (mean, sd, median) of patients regarding FM, ARAT, grip strength and ABILHAND.
Table 4.
Number of patients whose outcome scores exceeded the MCID thresholds, expressed as the percentage of the total number of persons within a subgroup, for FM, grip strength, ARAT and ABILHAND.