Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Adults With Stroke

Practice guidelines are important tools for promoting the highest quality of health care. In this latest practice guideline from the American Occupational Therapy Association, Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Adults With Stroke gives occupational therapy practitioners, educators, and health care professionals an evidence-based guide for providing the best, most appropriate care for stroke survivors.

Each year as many as 700,000 people in the United States experience a new or recurrent stroke, and more than 500,000 survive. Drawing on key concepts from the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, 2nd Edition, this guideline details how significantly occupational therpay can contribute to treating adults managing the functional limitations that can result from experiencing a stroke.

These guidelines also include valuable resources such as extensive evidence tables summarizing relevant stroke research and its application to occupational therapy clinical practice and ICD-9-CM and CPT codes related to occupational therapy for stroke survivors.

Designed primarily for clinical practitioners, Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Adults With Stroke is a vital reference tool for occupational therapy students and educators, policymakers, and other health care professsionals who work with clients recovering from stroke or who are involved in the reimbursement of services. The guideline clarifies the role of occupational therapy services for external audiences by determining the appropriateness of occupational therapy referrals and detailing the scope of services related to stroke.