PMID: 9191710Jun 1, 1997Paper

Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric Rehabilitation

Medical Care

Abstract

Geriatric rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary set of evaluative, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions whose purpose is to restore functional ability or enhance residual functional capability in elderly people with disabling impairments. The Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric Rehabilitation was convened to begin a dialogue among experts in rehabilitation, quality of care, and health services research to consider ways to measure, improve, and ensure the quality of geriatric rehabilitation services. The conference centered around four major themes: the definition of disability/disablement; the patient's experience of rehabilitative care; the role of clinical practice guidelines; and the need for casemix and severity or risk-adjustment procedures and measures. The plenary speaker discussed potential new directions in each of these areas and reviewed the contribution of these innovations to improved means of outcomes assessment. Each of the four themes was addressed in the form of a paper by an expert in the field. Two reactors with different viewpoints responded to these papers, and small working groups of participants, convened by topic, contributed to discussions later summarized and p...Continue Reading

Citations

May 25, 2013·Journal of the American Medical Directors Association·Marije S HolstegeWilco P Achterberg
Jun 17, 2003·Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation·Jennie L WellsFrank Knoefel
Jan 15, 2017·BMC Health Services Research·Irma H J EverinkGertrudis I J M Kempen
Oct 26, 2012·Seminars in Dialysis·Janine Farragher, Sarbjit Vanita Jassal
May 22, 2018·Journal of Applied Gerontology : the Official Journal of the Southern Gerontological Society·Irma H J EverinkJos M G A Schols
Dec 14, 2018·European Geriatric Medicine·Eléonore F van Dam van IsseltWilco P Achterberg
Jul 25, 2021·Journal of Clinical Medicine·Marina KotsaniAthanase Benetos

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