Yes / Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability in the UK. Many stroke patients report a feeling
of ‘abandonment’ when they are discharged from therapy services. This in turn, leads to
readmissions and re-referrals to both hospital and community services. This paper discusses
the components of E-health and how E-health could be used to supplement conventional
interventions to improve patient engagement, empowerment and decreased reliance on
therapy services. In doing so it will consider how such interventions could better involve carers.
An integrated E-health approach has the potential to improve outcomes for stroke survivors.
A person centred approach needs to be employed through partnerships between stroke
survivor, carer and healthcare professional. Remote monitoring could provide specific targeted
interventions, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions or re-referrals and reducing cost of
care. While the issues are well defined more work is required on what these integrated, patient
centred E-health solutions may look like in order to be successful in supporting stroke survivors. / The full-text of this article will be released for public view at the end of the publisher embargo on 11 Apr 2018.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/13523 |
| Date | 11 April 2018 |
| Creators | Lavin, Nicole, Hellawell, Michael, O'Brien, Caroline |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted Manuscript |
| Rights | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in British Journal of Healthcare Management, copyright © 2017 MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2017.23.10.462. |
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