JAMA Article re; LOS, Mortality

[Finally M3]

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/292/14/1687

Interesting, increased mortality is probably a function of sicker patients being pushed into rehab earlier as well as having less sick patients being shunted to sub-acute rehab...

However, they only have grouped data and no data for individual years re; the types of patients admitted.

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[drusso]

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/292/14/1687

Interesting, increased mortality is probably a function of sicker patients being pushed into rehab earlier as well as having less sick patients being shunted to sub-acute rehab...

However, they only have grouped data and no data for individual years re; the types of patients admitted.

The results of this study are really not too surprising to anyone who has been on an inpatient rehab unit lately---especially in academic centers. The patients are more acute, more medically tenuous, and there are increasing pressures to get patients home sooner. The up side to this is that it reinforces the need for MEDICALLY trained rehab professionals more than ever. I can't imagine a new "DPT" thinking that they could "eval and treat" a patient with the complexity of medical issues that rehab patients typically possess now.

Gone are days when a new SCI stayed in acute rehab for 3 months that for sure...

 

[DigableCat]

Gone are days when a new SCI stayed in acute rehab for 3 months that for sure...

Unless they were VA...