Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 12 , Pages 2274-2277 , December 2008

Apparent Changes in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Outcomes Due to a Change in the Definition of Program Interruption

  • Anne Deutsch, PhD, RN, CRRN

      Affiliations

    • Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Institute for Health Care Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Anne Deutsch, PhD, RN, CRRN, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 345 E Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611
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  • Carl V. Granger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation, Amherst, NY
    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
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  • Carol Russell, BA

      Affiliations

    • Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation, Amherst, NY
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  • Allen W. Heinemann, PhD, ABPP

      Affiliations

    • Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Institute for Health Care Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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  • Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

References 

  1. Guide to the Uniform Data Set for Medical Rehabilitation (Version 5). Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo; 1997;
  2. Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) training manual. Buffalo: Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation; 2001;
  3. Deutsch A, Fiedler RC, Granger CV, Russell CF. The Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation report of patients discharged from comprehensive medical rehabilitation programs in 1999. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2002;81:133–142
  4. Granger CV, Deutsch A, Russell C, Black T, Ottenbacher KJ. Modifications to the FIM(TM) instrument under the inpatient rehabilitation prospective payment system. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2007;86:883–892

 Supported by a Switzer Fellowship (award no. H133F040032) and Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program (grant no. H133A030807) from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.

 Reprints are not available from the author.

PII: S0003-9993(08)01486-X

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.06.014

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 12 , Pages 2274-2277 , December 2008

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