Recovery From Disablement: What Functional Abilities Do Rehabilitation Professionals Value the Most? Pamela M. Rist, BSE, Damean W. Freas, DO, MBA, Greg Maislin, MS, MA, Margaret G. Stineman, MD Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Volume 89, Issue 8, Pages 1600-1606 (August 2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.060 Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Example RPE game board. This example of a completed RPE game board is used to show how the procedure works and how utilities are generated. The utilities (appearing as numbers) are applied to develop a person's recovery preference pathway as described in the text. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 1600-1606DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.060) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Utility values for all therapeutic groups combined across the 18 FIM items. This aggregate plot shows 3 clusters of utilities according to relative importance (see text). Abbreviations: Ba, bathing; Be, bed chair wheelchair transfer; Bl, bladder management; Bo, bowel management; C, comprehension; Dl, dressing lower body; Du, dressing upper body; Ea, eating; Ex, expression; G, grooming; M, memory; P, problem solving; S, stairs; Si, social interaction; T, toileting; Ts, tub/shower transfer; Tt, toilet transfer; W, walk/wheelchair. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 1600-1606DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.060) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Physician (physician and medical student) versus Psych (psychologist and social work) group utilities. Recovery preferences are higher for the psych compared with physician group for those activities above the 45° line. This comparison shows utilities for the 2 practitioner groups with the least similar recovery choice pathways. Abbreviations: see figure 2. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 1600-1606DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.060) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Physical therapist (PT) versus occupational therapist (OT) utilities. This comparison shows utilities for the practitioner groups with the most similar recovery choice pathways. Abbreviations: see figure 2. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 1600-1606DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.060) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions