Rehabilitation Efficacy for Brain and Spinal Injury

摘要

The project responds to one of the priorities announced in the Centers for Disease Control program announcement which is to 'evaluate the effect of known interventions on injury morbidity, disability, and costs.' The project seeks to predict rehabilitation outcomes more precisely, thus enhancing the cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation, assuring the quality of care, and improving treatment planning. The specific aims of the project are to study the: (1) scalability and metric characteristics of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and Barthel; (2) predictive validity of the FIM and Barthel; (3) predictive validity of therapy type and intensity; (4) predictors of rehabilitation outcomes more generally; and (5) functional progress of patients with traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries during and after inpatient rehabilitation.