Symposium

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Health Services Research

The Value of Rehabilitation Interventions --Integrating Evidence, Clinical Expertise, Critical Assessment, and Patient Needs

Thursday, November 10, 2022

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Presenter(s)

Elliot J. Roth, MD

Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Northwestern Univ Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Slides
Neil Jordan, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor
Northwestern University School of Medicine, United States

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Anne Deutsch, PhD, RN, CRRN, FACRM, FARN

Senior Research Public Health Analyst
RTI international
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Thomas G. Hornby, PT, PhD

Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
Carmel, Indiana, United States

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Leora R. Cherney, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, FACRM

Scientific Chair and Professor
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Susan Magasi (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Jennifer L. Moore, PT, DHS, NCS

Advisor
Regional Center for Knowledge Translation
Carmel, Indiana, United States

Slides

This Symposium is presented as a means of exploring the assessment of effectiveness and value of rehabilitation interventions, discussing the integration of evidence with patient perspectives, and describing the implementation of scientifically supported interventions into daily clinical rehabilitation practice. Together, the presentations provide a simultaneously multifaceted but focused perspective on the complicated topic of “value” and how to use “evidence” to determine and demonstrate it. Topics include: the rationale and methodology for determining and applying the concept of “value” in rehabilitation, concrete examples of the determination of value, cost-effectiveness, and parameters that affect outcomes in various types of rehabilitation interventions, such as intensity and variability, in gait training, and in aphasia therapy. The role of peer health navigators as an adjunctive intervention to empower people with disabilities is described, and various aspects of the application of knowledge translation as a means of implementing evidence-based information into practice are reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

·Describe methods for assessing the value of rehabilitation interventions
Discuss the benefits of and strategies to enable intensity and variability in rehabilitation interventions for people with neurological injuries ·
Discuss evidence regarding complexity in aphasia treatment
Understand the complex behavioral intervention of Peer Health Navigators
Understand the use of the Knwledge-to-Action framework to successfully implement and sustain use of a gait assessment batter in inpatient stroke rehabilitation