Rehabkompassen® - a novel digital follow-up tool for facilitating patient-tailored rehabilitation in the post-acute continuum of care after stroke - A multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial

Despite the heavy burden of stroke and the demands from ‘Socialstyrelsen’ of improving post-acute care, an effective structured follow-up to promote a patient-tailored rehabilitation remains largely lacking in the current stroke care.The overall aim of this study is to find a cost-effective solution to facilitate patient-tailored rehabilitation that improves daily and social activities and health-related quality of life for persons discharged from hospital after stroke.

We have recently developed a novel digital graphic tool, Rehabkompassen®, which based on patient-reported outcome measurements captures the patient´s complex health status after stroke.

Here, this tool will be used in a parallel, open-label, 2-arm prospective and multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial between 2022-2026.

All participants (n = 1106) will be randomized according to permuted block design, and receive a usual out-patient visit without (control group, n = 553) or with (intervention group, n = 553) Rehabkompassen®, at 3-month after stroke.

The effectiveness of the tool on daily and social activities, quality of life and its health-economic effects will be compared at 12-month out-patient visit post stroke.We hypothesize that the Rehabkompassen® may provide a patient-tailored rehabilitation that improves recovery, independence, and quality of life among people with stroke in a cost-effective way.

The tool may thus be implemented in the post-acute continuum of stroke care.