title: Characterizing rehabilitation services for patients with knee and hip replacement in skilled nursing facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize rehabilitation services for patients with knee and hip replacement in 3 types of postacute facilities in the U.S.
  
  
  METHODS
  Multi-site prospective observational cohort study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eight freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), 1 hospital-based SNF, and 11 inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs).
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients (N=2158) with knee or hip replacement.
  
  
  METHODS
  No new interventions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Length of stay (LOS), amount and intensity of physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT), types of therapy activities.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Average LOS was about 15 days for freestanding SNF patients, and 9 to 10 days for hospital-based SNF and IRF patients. Freestanding SNFs and IRFs provide about the same number of hours of PT and OT; the hospital-based SNF provided 27% fewer hours. Freestanding SNFs and the hospital-based SNF provided fewer hours a day than did IRFs. Joint replacement patients across all 3 types of facilities spent, on average, 70% to 75% of their PT time in just 2 activities--exercise and gait and spent 56% to 66% of their OT time in 3 activities--exercise, functional mobility, and dressing lower body.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both freestanding SNFs and IRFs provided similar amounts of PT with a similar emphasis on exercise and gait activities. IRFs, however, provided more OT than freestanding SNFs. IRFs had shorter LOSs and more intensive therapy services than freestanding SNFs. Study freestanding SNFs exhibited greater variation in LOS and intensity of therapy than IRFs.
authors: Center for Post-acute Studies, National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC 20010, USA. Gerben.DeJong@MedStar.net
authors: Gerben
authors: G
authors: DeJong
authors: Ching-Hui
authors: CH
authors: Hsieh
authors: Julie
authors: J
authors: Gassaway
authors: Susan D
authors: SD
authors: Horn
authors: Randall J
authors: RJ
authors: Smout
authors: Koen
authors: K
authors: Putman
authors: Roberta
authors: R
authors: James
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Brown
authors: Elizabeth M
authors: EM
authors: Newman
authors: Mary P
authors: MP
authors: Foley
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012866:Skilled Nursing Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019467:Subacute Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States