The object of research: costs of physiotherapy’s services of stroke patients.
The head stroke is the one main cause of disability, independency and social habits. Constantly the increasing number of stroke patients and the increasing cost of stroke treatment and rehabilitation are the main causes of great economical costs. Physiotherapy is one of the main rehabilitation methods, helps to reestablish the disordered functions and reach independency. Health’s functionary of Lithuania attitude towards physiotherapy is incomplete: not established new workplaces, unwarranted the individual physiotherapy, suffer the quality of patients’ treatment and daily life. We think that physiotherapy valuations are incomplete in our health care system and not reflect its real worth. So the aim of this research is to evaluate the costs of physiotherapy of stroke patients.
The tasks to reach the aim of this study were: 1) to analyze the structure of physiotherapy valuations; 2) to estimate the valuations of physiotherapy in inpatient, outpatient hospital care and in rehabilitation centre; 3) to compare the real valuations of physiotherapy with norms of the Ministry of Health.
The research was performed in neurological, rehabilitation departments of Kaunas Second clinical hospital and in Kaunas Šilainiai polyclinic. In the research took part stroke patients, who were treating in neurological, rehabilitation and outpatient care departments in the year 2005. There were analyzed the documentation... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060509_123301-88609 |
| Date | 09 May 2006 |
| Creators | Brazdžionytė, Laura |
| Contributors | Vaitauskienė, V., Gorinienė, G., Dudonienė, V., Savickas, R., Krutulytė, G., Krutulytė, Gražina, Kriščiūnas, A., Skirius, J., Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060509_123301-88609 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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