Proactive rehabilitation screening (PReS) - development and validation of a modified PReS tool to screen admitted patients needing in-hospital rehabilitation programs.
Jane Wu, Yuriko Watanabe, Nicholas Olsen, Swee-Ling Toh, Abraham Arulanandam, Christine T Shiner
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Abstract
Purpose: To analyse the predictive performance of Proactive Rehabilitation Screening (PReS) tool in identifying hospitalised patients who require formal inpatient multidisciplinary rehabilitation program.
Methods: A prospective observational cohort study was conducted in two Australian public hospitals. The aims were to (1) assess the original PReS tool's ability to predict rehabilitation needs and (2) develop and validate a modified PReS tool. Regression analysis was used to re-estimate predictor weights.
Results: In the development cohort (n = 1600), 272 patients (17%) received rehabilitation. Using multivariate regression analysis, we identified five key variables (age, number of allied health sessions received in 5 days, assistance required to mobilise, new personal care impairment and discharge barriers) to modify the original PReS tool. The modified PReS scores were stratified into likelihood of rehabilitation: low (0-4), medium (5-13) and high (14-20). Performance was improved for medium likelihood when a rehabilitation clinician was included in decision making. This was validated in an independent cohort of 800 patients demonstrating good predictive performance: sensitivity of 81.1%, specificity of 88.0%, total accuracy 86.9%.
Conclusion: The modified PReS tool can reliably identify patients at risk of needing rehabilitation using five easily obtained clinical variables, enabling timely evidence-based rehabilitation interventions to minimise disability.
期刊介绍:
Disability and Rehabilitation along with Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology are international multidisciplinary journals which seek to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disability and to promote rehabilitation science, practice and policy aspects of the rehabilitation process.