Rehabilitation Therapy for Nursing Home Residents at the End-of-Life
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Publication type:
Journal Article
Year:
2019
Journal/Series title:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume number:
20
Issue:
4
Pages:
476-480.e1
ISSN/ISBN:
1525-8610
Abstract:
ObjectiveUltrahigh therapy use has increased in SNFs without concomitant increases in residents' characteristics. It has been suggested that this trend may also have influenced the provision of high-intensity rehabilitation therapies to residents who are at the end of life (EOL). Motivated by lack of evidence, we examined therapy use and intensity among long-stay EOL residents.