A Systematic Review of International Clinical Guidelines for Rehabilitation of People With Neurological Conditions: What Recommendations Are Made for Upper Limb Assessment?
Conclusions: We present a comprehensive, critical, and original summary of current
recommendations. Defining a core set of measures and agreed protocols requires
international consensus between experts representing the diverse and multi-disciplinary
field of neurorehabilitation including clinical researchers and practitioners, rehabilitation
technology researchers, and commercial developers. Current lack of guidance may
hold-back progress in understanding function and recovery. Together with a Delphi
consensus study and an overview of systematic reviews of outcome measures it will
contribute to the development of international guidelines for upper limb assessment in
neurological conditions.This review formed part of the COST Action TD 1006A
European Network on Robotics for Neurorehabilitation. It was
an interdisciplinary EU-funded research network concentrating
on the coordination of European research in the area of
rehabilitation robotics