Frontloaded Home Health Physical Therapy Reduces Hospital Readmissions Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries
This study found that providing home health physical therapist visits early and often after hospital discharge decreases the risk that patients will be readmitted over the next 30 days.
Authors
- Kevin H. McLaughlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5957-0935)
- Jenni S. Reiff
- Lisa Reider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5373-9197)
- Joseph Levy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-5306)
- Julia Burgdorf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3356-1897)
Institutions
- VNS Health (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Therapy
- Published
- 2024-09-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzae127
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.85