Benchmarking Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinics Using Functional Status Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To utilize functional status (FS) outcomes to benchmark outpatient therapy clinics.

Data sources

Outpatient therapy data from clinics using Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes (FOTO) assessments.

Study design

Retrospective analysis of 538 clinics, involving 2,040 therapists and 90,392 patients admitted July 2006-June 2008. FS at discharge was modeled using hierarchical regression methods with patients nested within therapists within clinics. Separate models were estimated for all patients, for those with lumbar, and for those with shoulder impairments. All models risk-adjusted for intake FS, age, gender, onset, surgery count, functional comorbidity index, fear-avoidance level, and payer type. Inverse probability weighting adjusted for censoring.

Data collection

SUBMITTER: Gozalo PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4799911 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature