Implementation of a gait center training to improve walking ability and vital parameters in inpatient neurological rehabilitation- a cohort study

Table 1 Patient characteristics at baseline from total sample and selected subgroups

	Total sample (n = 780)		Central Diagnoses							Peripheral Diagnoses			NWA			p value
			STI (n = 329)			STH (n = 131)				CIPM (n = 74)			(n = 89)
	Median	IQR	n	Median	IQR	n	Median	IQR	n	Median	IQR	n	Median	IQR	n
Age (years)	68.0	22.0	780	72.0	18.0	329	72.0	23.0	131	71.0	14.8	74	72.0	8.0	89	0.496
duration of illness (weeks)	4.3	16.6	629	3.0	5.6	284	3.9	10.8	109	9.0	10.5	51	3.7	6.7	73	< 0.001
duration of rehabilitation (weeks)	4.9	3.9	780	4.6	3.0	329	5.4	4.2	131	6.3	4.3	74	6.0	4.6	89	< 0.001
time rehabilitation beginning-start gait trainer (weeks)	0.7	1.0	616	0.7	0.9	266	0.7	1.5	102	1.7	3.5	43	3.4	5.7	26	< 0.001
total gait trainer- sessions	5.0	10.0	779	5.0	9.0	329	7.0	13.5	131	1.0	8.5	74	1.0	1.3	88	< 0.001
FAC	3	5	750	3	5	314	1	4	126	0	2	73	0	0	89	< 0.001
Vital capacity (ccm)	2100	1500	594	2100	1400	253	1900	1525	92	1600	1450	44	1300	800	40	0.052
Blood pressure systolic (mmHg)	129	17	762	130	43	323	129	17	128	124	16	72	129	17	87	< 0.001
Blood pressure diastolic (mmHg)	76	11	762	76	11	323	77	5	128	74	9	71	76	10	87	0.006

STI ischemic stroke, STH hemorrhagic stroke, CIPM Critical Illness Polyneuropathy or –Myopathy, NWA patients who did not reach walking ability neither at the beginning nor at the end of rehabilitation- this subgroup n = 89 is composed as follows 45(STI) + 24(STH) + 10(CIPM) + 10(other neurological diagnosis), IQR interquartile range, FAC Functional Ambulation Categories, p value- derived from paired Wilcoxon test

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