Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Rehabilitation Team Functioning and Patient Outcomes
Brief Summary: The purpose of the study is to determine if 1. Rehabilitation staff can be trained to work better together as a team; and 2. Better team work improves patient outcomes.


Options:
A: Because of the clustered design, there are inclusion and exclusion criteria for clusters as well as for clients with dementia and their caregivers.A cluster is a unit that exists of at least one occupational therapist, one physician, and one manager.

Criteria for clusters

Inclusion Criteria:

* The organization provides outpatient OT.
* The organization expects that they will be able to include a minimum of 8 clients in the study.
* There are at least two OTs, one manager, and one physician willing and able to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The organization does not provide OT or outpatient treatment and is not allowed to refer to OT services in their area that do provide community OT.
* Less than 8 clients are available per year to refer to the OT.
* Physicians, managers or OTs are not willing to participate
* Members of the board of directors responsible for the organization do not agree to participate

Criteria for client with dementia and their informal caregiver

Inclusion Criteria for clients and informal caregivers:

* Client has mild to moderate dementia (MMSE score 10-24, DSM IV criteria for dementia)
* Client lives at home
* Client has an informal caregiver who takes care of the client at least twice a week

Exclusion criteria for clients:

* Client is in a severe stage of dementia
* Client has a depression (GDS (version 30) \>12)
* Client has severe behavioral or psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD)
* Client has a severe illness at the time of inclusion

Exclusion criteria for informal caregivers:

* The caregiver is not able to participate in the OT treatment (e.g. due to illness).
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Discharge from medical service
* LACE score greater than or equal to 10
* Age greater than or equal or 18
* Resident in Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network catchment area
* Patient or designate able to speak English well enough for follow up telephone calls

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previously enrolled in study
* Discharged to a rehabilitation or complex continuing care facility
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients, family members, clinicians attending ICU family conferences, and nurses evaluating the quality of care.
* All ICU patients are eligible if they meet the age criteria, have been in the ICU for at least 12 hours, have acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation at the time of enrollment, and have an APACHE II score/SOFA score or other diagnosis that predicts a 30-50% or greater risk of mortality.
* Eligible family members and/or friends may include any of the following: legal guardians, durable power of attorney for healthcare, spouses, adult children, parents, siblings, domestic partners, other relatives, and friends; if they meet the age criteria, and understand English well enough to complete informed consent and study materials.
* Eligible clinicians include those who are present during a family conference and may include physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, respiratory therapists, and clergy.
* All critical care nurses are eligible to participate in the evaluation if they have provided care to a patient on or before the shift in which he or she died or was discharged from the ICU.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Legal or risk management concerns (as determined by the attending physician or via hospital record designation);
* Psychological illness or morbidity; and
* Physical or mental limitations preventing ability to complete questionnaires.
* Patients will be excluded if they do not have at least one family member who is eligible and willing to participate in the study.
* A patient who is readmitted to the ICU, if the patient was enrolled and discharged previously, will not be eligible.
* Post-operative patients who have been admitted to the ICU after a scheduled surgery without complications will be excluded. These patients may meet other eligibility criteria (ventilation, APACHE scores, etc.) within the first 12 to 48 hours of admission, but will usually improve quite rapidly after that period.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Randomized, controlled subjects were VA inpatient rehabilitation teams. Secondary data included telephone surveys from discharged patients treated by the rehabilitation teams.

Exclusion Criteria:

* VA sites which did not submit data to the VA-FSOD - the national functional outcomes database

Answer: D