Ten-year trends in pediatric inpatient rehabilitation
The way in which pediatric rehabilitation services are delivered has changed in the last decade, according to research presented this week at the Association for Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting in Sacramento, Calif. Researchers recently sought to fill this research gap with a retrospective study that evaluated overall trends in pediatric inpatient rehabilitation and how care is changing in regard to patient demographics, health and functional characteristics as well as the characteristics of facilities in which care is delivered. Additionally, they sought to identify characteristics of patients and facilities that predict length of stay and effectiveness of treatment as well as characterize differences in rehabilitation care based on the different regions of the United States. Length of stay varied as widely as one to 944 days over the decade studied, with the average length of…