using a registration form with detailed written instructions, data were prospectively collected from the time of admisson. Patients were classified as eligible or non eligible for the specific process of care depending on whether the professionals treating the patient identified contraindications; for example. severe dementia  in a patient  with ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation precluding oral anticoagulant therapy or rapid spontaneous recovery of motor symptoms, making early assessment by a physiotherapist and a occupational therapist irrelevant. in the written instructions , the criteria for deeming a patient ineligible for the care processes were specified.