Building PRM in sub-Saharan Africa.
Abena Yeboaa Tannor, Mary Elizabeth S Nelson, Hannah K Steere, Benedict Okoe Quao, Andrew J Haig
PMID 36189021WHAT IT FOUND
This paper describes the establishment of rehabilitation medicine training programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
It outlines curriculum development and policy challenges but reports no clinical outcomes or patient data. There are no findings here to inform direct patient care.
What this paper is
This paper chronicles the development of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) training programs in sub-Saharan Africa, using Ghana as a case study. It describes the curriculum, partnerships, and challenges in establishing these programs but reports no clinical outcomes, patient data, or efficacy results for any specific rehabilitation intervention. There is no finding here to change clinical practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the described training programs improve patient functioning. It is a narrative account of program development and policy, not a clinical trial or observational study of patient outcomes.