Post-discharge rehabilitation and functional recovery after pediatric injury.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Variability in rehabilitation disposition has been proposed as a trauma center quality metric. Benchmarking rehabilitation disposition is limited by a lack of objective measures of functional impairment at discharge. The primary aim of this study was to determine the relative contribution of patient characteristics and hospitalization factors associated with inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation after discharge. The secondary aims were to evaluate the sensitivity of the Functional Status Scale (FSS) score for identifying functional impairments at hospital discharge and track post-discharge recovery.

Patients and methods

We report a planned secondary analysis of a prospective observational study of seriously injured children (<15 years old) enrolled at seven pe

SUBMITTER: Maddux AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9808527 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature