Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 8 , Pages 1349-1363 , August 2009

Associations Between Treatment Processes, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes in Outpatient Physical Therapy Practice

  • Daniel Deutscher, MSc, PT

      Affiliations

    • Physical Therapy Services, Maccabi Health Care Services—HMO, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Daniel Deutscher, MSc, PT, 27 Hamered St, Tel-Aviv 68125, Israel
    • ,
  • Susan D. Horn, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, Salt Lake City, UT
    • ,
  • Ruth Dickstein, DSc, PT

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Dennis L. Hart, PhD, PT

      Affiliations

    • Consulting and Research, Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes Inc, White Stone, VA
    • ,
  • Randall J. Smout, MS

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, Salt Lake City, UT
    • ,
  • Moshe Gutvirtz, MHA, BPT

      Affiliations

    • Physical Therapy Services, Maccabi Health Care Services—HMO, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Ilana Ariel, BPT

      Affiliations

    • Northern District Physical Therapy Services, Maccabi Health Care Services—HMO, Haifa, Israel

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 Supported by Maccabi Healthcare Services—HMO, Israel; and by the Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research, Israel.

 A commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has conferred or will confer a financial benefit on the author or one or more of the authors. Hart is an employee of, and investor in, Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes Inc, a database management company, owner of the outcomes collection software used to collect function outcome for the study.

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