Jennifer Bogner, Marcel Dijkers, Erinn M Hade, Cynthia Beaulieu, Erin Montgomery, Clare Giuffrida, Misti Timpson, Juan Peng, Kamie Gilchrist, Aubrey Lash, Flora M Hammond, Susan Horn, John Corrigan
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of providing a greater percentage of therapy as contextualized treatment on acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation outcomes. DESIGN: Propensity score methods are applied to the TBI-Practice-Based Evidence (TBI-PBE) database, a database consisting of multi-site, prospective, longitudinal observational data. SETTING: Acute inpatient rehabilitation. PARTICIPANTS: Patients enrolled in the TBI-PBE study (n=1843), aged 14 years or older, who sustained a severe, moderate, or complicated mild TBI, receiving their first IRF admission in the US, and consented to follow-up 3 and 9 months post discharge from inpatient rehabilitation...
February 1, 2019: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation