Original scientific paper

TEN-YEAR EXPERIENCE IN HOME REHABILITATION IN SPLIT

Tonko VLAK ; Bolnica za reumatske bolesti i rehabilitaciju u Splitu
Štefanija ŠKARE ; Bolnica za reumatske bolesti i rehabilitaciju u Splitu

Abstract

/\s an integral part of the Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and Rehabilitation in
Split (Croatia), its l-lome Rehabilitation Service has been successfully functioning for
ten years. ln the period from December 1981 to December 1991 as many as 2132
paticnts were treated. Most of them, namely 621 patients - or 29. 13% - were those
reeupcrating ti·om and treated after a cerebrovascular insultus. The number of patients
with dcgenerative rheumatic diseases and those in posttraumatic cond idtion was
somewhat smaller.
T he majority of all our patients were the children with cercbra l damage who, in Split,
are deprived of being treated as in-patients. For them home rehabilitation is the only
medical treatment obta inable so far.
The. positivc effect of l lome Rehabilitation Service in Split has been evident both in
relicv ing the shortage of hospital beds in helping the chronically disabled persons by
treating them as out-patients. The number of patients covered by this Service indicates
its signiftcance and its eoonnous influence of improving the public health standard of
Split.

Keywords

Home rehabilitation

Hrčak ID:

142650

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/142650

Publication date:

20.12.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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