Post-Fracture Inpatient and Outpatient Physical/Occupational Therapy and Its Association with Survival among Adults with Cerebral Palsy.

ABSTRACT: Physical and/or occupational therapy (PT/OT) may improve post-fracture health and survival among adults with cerebral palsy (CP), but this has not been studied in the inpatient setting. The objective was to quantify the association between acute inpatient and outpatient PT/OT use with 1-year mortality among adults with CP. This was a retrospective cohort study of adults with CP with an incident fragility fracture admitted to an acute care or rehabilitation facility using a random 20% Medicare fee-for-service dataset. Acute care/rehabilitation PT/OT was measured as the average PT/OT cost/day for the length of stay (LOS). Weekly exposure to outpatient PT/OT was examined up to 6 months post-fracture. Cox regression examined the adjusted association between the interaction of acute care/rehabi

SUBMITTER: Whitney DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9570908 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature