title: An organizational typology of treatment facilities for the physically handicapped.
abstract: The lack of a viable organizational typology is cited as a factor in the current absence of comparative research among physical rehabilitation facilities. A short discussion of approaches to typology construction is given which concludes that theoretically grounded typologies are most likely to produce useful insights. Subsequently, a fourfold typology of treatment facilities-maintenance, processing, changing and rehabilitation-is generated from a theory of variations in patient handling.
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009934:Organization and Administration; D010361:Patients; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000145:classification