Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J Rehabil Med. 2010 Sep;42(8):773-9. doi: 10.2340/16501977-0582.
This study examined characteristics of patients with acquired brain injury associated with wait times for inpatient rehabilitation compared with a control population of patients with acquired spinal cord injury.
This cross-sectional study was based on 9458 patients captured in the National Rehabilitation Reporting System in Canada.
Waiting for inpatient rehabilitation was found to be associated with language, geographical location, informal support, pre-admission living arrangement and payer source. The median differences in wait time, however, were at most a few days. Persons already receiving care had the longest median wait times.
The data reflect only the perspective of providers, and further research needs to examine days to inpatient admission using data from acute care.
本研究通过比较等待住院康复治疗的患者与获得性脊髓损伤患者的对照人群，调查与获得性脑损伤相关的患者特征与住院康复治疗等待时间之间的关系。
本横断面研究基于加拿大国家康复报告系统中 9458 例患者的数据。
研究发现，等待住院康复治疗与语言能力、地理位置、非正式支持、入院前居住安排和支付者来源相关。然而，最长等待时间的中位数差异最多只有几天。已经接受治疗的患者等待时间最长。
这些数据仅反映了提供者的观点，需要进一步使用来自急性护理的数据来检验住院入院天数。
