One Level III study found in the literature focused on initiating
intensive rehabilitation during the in-patient hospital admission. Shiel
et al. focused on the effect of increased in tensity of rehabilitation therapy
provided to brain injured subjects, the rate at which independence was
regained, and the duration of hospital admission. Te design was a two-
year prospective multicenter controlled study of fifty-six individuals
with moderate and severe head injury. Te results of the therapy
interventions supported the recommendations that the subjects who
received more intensive therapy made more rapid progress and were
discharged sooner from the hospital. This study also supported that
increasing the hours per week of therapy given to adults recovering
from brain injury in-hospital, can accelerate the rate of recovery of
personal independence and thus result in their being discharged from
the hospital sooner.