... hospital insurance coverage for rehabilitation after a stroke has resulted in shift of patients to long-term care facilities not staffed or equipped to provide the same therapies. Fuchs (1998) notes that in any one year, 5% of the population accounts for more than 50% of all health expenditures. More than one-third of all care is provided to persons over ... individual; we need to develop some common language or evaluation tool. What have we found? After an extensive literature review, Schuster, McGlynn and Brook (1998) reported that perhaps their most striking finding was the "small am...

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