TY - JOUR
T1 - The Value and Role of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility
T2 - Association of Academic Physiatrists Position Statement
AU - Perret, Danielle
AU - Whyte, John
AU - Melvin, John
AU - Celnik, Pablo
AU - Knowlton, Tiffany
AU - Nguyen, Benjamin
AU - Roberts-Atwater, Beverly
AU - Wu, Sam S.H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - ABSTRACT: Although healthcare is always changing, the inpatient rehabilitation facility has indispensable and enduring roles in patient care, medical education, and research. For patients with complex medical and functional limitations, inpatient rehabilitation facility-level care fosters recovery and community reintegration and plays a strategic role in optimizing healthcare transitions from acute and to postacute settings. It is an incomparable and distinct zone for interprofessional education: the healthcare system is dependent on the inpatient rehabilitation facility as the epicenter for instruction to healthcare professionals on how to care for patients with complex rehabilitation needs. As healthcare evolves, patients' increasing medical complexity requires ongoing research focused on patients' evolving healthcare needs. The inpatient rehabilitation facility alone offers the requisite infrastructure to support such discovery. In this Association of Academic Physiatrists Position Paper, we provide a fresh perspective on the value proposition of the inpatient rehabilitation facility and advocate for this unique clinical environment as a critical component of contemporary healthcare.
AB - ABSTRACT: Although healthcare is always changing, the inpatient rehabilitation facility has indispensable and enduring roles in patient care, medical education, and research. For patients with complex medical and functional limitations, inpatient rehabilitation facility-level care fosters recovery and community reintegration and plays a strategic role in optimizing healthcare transitions from acute and to postacute settings. It is an incomparable and distinct zone for interprofessional education: the healthcare system is dependent on the inpatient rehabilitation facility as the epicenter for instruction to healthcare professionals on how to care for patients with complex rehabilitation needs. As healthcare evolves, patients' increasing medical complexity requires ongoing research focused on patients' evolving healthcare needs. The inpatient rehabilitation facility alone offers the requisite infrastructure to support such discovery. In this Association of Academic Physiatrists Position Paper, we provide a fresh perspective on the value proposition of the inpatient rehabilitation facility and advocate for this unique clinical environment as a critical component of contemporary healthcare.
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U2 - 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001610
DO - 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001610
M3 - Article
C2 - 33017345
AN - SCOPUS:85102211701
VL - 100
SP - 276
EP - 279
JO - American Journal of Physical Medicine
JF - American Journal of Physical Medicine
SN - 0894-9115
IS - 3
ER -