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1 1441 The Relationship Between Therapy Intensity and Rehabilitative Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Multicenter Analysis David X. Cifu, MD, Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, PhD, ABPP, Stephanie A. Kolakowsky-Hayner, MA, Jennifer H. Marwitz, MA, Jeffrey Englander, MD From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Richmond, VA (Cifu, Kreutzer, Kolakowsky-Hayner, Marwitz); and Rehabilitation Research Center for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA (Englander). Supported in part by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education (grant nos. H133A980026, H133A70018). Data were contributed by the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, TIRR, and Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Campus. No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated. Reprint requests to Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, PhD, ABPP, Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Campus, 1200 E Broad St, Rm 3-102, Box , Richmond, VA , jskreutz@hsc.vcu.edu /03/ $30.00/0 doi: /s (03) ABSTRACT. Cifu DX, Kreutzer JS, Kolakowsky-Hayner SA, Marwitz JH, Englander J. The relationship between therapy intensity and rehabilitative outcomes after traumatic brain injury: a multicenter analysis. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2003;84: Objectives: To identify factors relating to the intensity of rehabilitation services received and to ascertain the relation between injury outcomes, demographics, types of therapy, and the intensity of rehabilitation services provided. Design: A multicenter, prospective, nonrandomized study with inpatient rehabilitation data collected between 1989 and Setting: Three medical centers in the federally sponsored Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. In each setting, the continuum of care includes emergency medical services, intensive and acute medical care, and inpatient rehabilitation. Participants: A total of 491 consecutively enrolled patients with a mean age standard deviation of years recruited from 3 medical centers. To be included in the study, patients must have been at least 16 years of age, have presented to the emergency department within 24 hours of injury, and have received acute care and inpatient rehabilitation. Interventions: Patients received comprehensive medical care along with a combination of rehabilitative therapies, including physical, occupational, psychologic, and speech therapy. Main Outcome Measures: Therapy intensity; levels of functional independence, cognitive function, functional gain, and treatment efficiency, as indicated by the FIM instrument; rehabilitation length of stay (LOS); and charges. Results: Age predicted the intensity of both psychologic (P.001) and total therapy (P.01) services. Acute care LOS was also a significant predictor of psychologic services (P.01). Only admission motor FIM was relevant in predicting speech services intensity (P.01). Therapy intensity was predictive of motor functioning at discharge (P.001). However, therapy intensity did not predict cognitive gain (P.05). Conclusions: This study is among the first multicenter efforts to examine the potential benefits of individual therapy services. Findings support assertions that increased therapy intensity, particularly physical and psychologic therapies, enhances functional outcomes. Key Words: Brain injuries; Rehabilitation; Treatment outcome by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation AN ESTIMATED 500,000 to 1.5 million patients are admitted to acute care hospitals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. 1,2 A recent multicenter study 3 found that the average combined cost of acute care and inpatient rehabilitation was $154,152 per patient. The recent development of a continuum of care model of rehabilitation introduced the idea of cost shifting by varying the intensity and site of the rehabilitation services provided, depending on the stage of recovery after TBI and patient tolerance. Providing more intensive therapy on a daily basis has been suggested as a way to reduce costs by further shortening the rehabilitation length of stay (LOS) and improving short- and long-term outcomes. Unfortunately, there are limited data on the efficacy of varying therapy intensity within a continuum of rehabilitation services. Initial research into therapy intensity focused on patients with stroke; it yielded equivocal findings. More recent investigations 4-9 have found improved outcomes with increased therapy intensity and use of specialized therapy techniques. Other researchers have found no meaningful relation between therapy intensity and outcomes. A recent critical review 14 of the stroke literature attributed equivocal findings to differences in samples and variations in methodology. Few studies have investigated the relation between therapy intensity and outcomes in the TBI population. Several studies, however, have found a correlation between increased therapy and decreased LOS or improved functional outcomes. For example, Blackerby 15 studied the effect of increased therapy intensity on rehabilitation LOS in patients with TBI at 2 regional hospitals. At both hospitals, a new therapeutic model was introduced that increased the number of therapy hours. Patients admitted before and after the increase were similar in age, injury severity, and functional status. Analyses showed that patients in the greater therapy intensity group had stays that were significantly shorter than those of patients in the lesser therapy intensity group. Similarly, Aronow 16 found that patients who received more rehabilitation therapy overall had better outcomes as measured by self-care skills, mobility, and symptoms at 2 or more years after injury. More recently, investigators have focused on the type of therapy delivered, as well as its intensity. Spivack et al 17 were among the first to investigate the relation between therapy and
2 1442 THERAPY INTENSITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Cifu specific outcomes. Their study included 95 patients with mild to severe injuries who were admitted to a comprehensive rehabilitation program. Measures of therapy intensity, including totals from various types of therapy (eg, physical, speech) and LOS, with division of participants into short-stay and long-stay groups, were designated as the independent variables. Retrospectively, participants were divided into high- and lowintensity groups, based on therapy totals for the entire LOS. The dependent measures consisted of measurement in 3 main areas: physical performance (eg, motor strength, bladder control); cognitively mediated physical skills (eg, visuoperceptual skills, swallowing ability); and higher-level cognitive skills (eg, memory, problem-solving). Analyses showed no effect of therapy intensity on outcomes in any of the 3 domains. However, although the high-intensity group had lower functional scores at the time of admission, their scores were at the same levels as those of the low-intensity group at discharge. The researchers concluded, therefore, that the higher intensity had beneficial effects. Heinemann et al 18 expanded on previous studies by investigating the effect of specific therapy intensities, including physical, occupational, speech, and psychology. Participants were 140 patients with TBI. The cognitive and motor scales of the FIM instrument were used as outcome measures. Achievement of potential was defined as the gain between admission and discharge divided by the potential gain (maximum possible score minus admission score). Efficiency scores were calculated by dividing the difference between admission and discharge scores by the LOS. After controlling for age, functional status at admission, and interruption of stay, greater intensity of psychology services was associated with better cognitive scores at discharge. Intensity of psychologic services was not related to motor outcome. The intensity of physical, occupational, or speech therapy was unrelated to motor or cognitive outcome. The intensity of all therapy types was positively correlated. Of note, physical and occupational therapy intensities were most closely related. Heinemann 18 recommended cross-validation of the findings with another sample. Our purpose in this study was to replicate and expand on Heinemann s therapy intensity study by using data from hospitals that participate in the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS). The primary goals were to determine the relation between intensity of therapy services and functional outcome, LOS, and hospital charges. The relative intensities of each therapy type were calculated, compared, and correlated. Statistical procedures were used to control for the effects of age, injury severity, and functional status at admission. A large, multicenter sample was studied to enhance generalization. The intensities of different therapy types were hypothesized to directly affect certain functional areas. Specifically, the intensity of physical and occupational therapy was expected to be most related to motor tasks, whereas speech and psychology services were expected to correlate with cognitive skills. Consistent with other research results, a relation between global outcome measures and therapy intensity was not anticipated. 18 METHODS Participants Participants were 491 patients who were enrolled in the TBIMS program, which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). 3,19 They were recruited from 3 participating medical centers, representing geographically diverse regions of the United States. To be included in the study, patients had to be at least 16 years old, had to have presented to the emergency department of a TBIMS trauma center within 24 hours of injury, and had to have received acute care and inpatient rehabilitation at a TBIMS center. The mean age standard deviation (SD) of patients was years. Most patients were male (72%) and white (63%). The sample also included African Americans (18%), Asian Americans (3%), Hispanics (11%), and other (5%). Regarding education, 41% of the sample had less than a high school education, 27% reported having completed high school, 20% had attended trade school or had some college background, and 12% had earned a higher education degree (eg, associate s, bachelor s). Glasgow Coma Scale scores at hospital admission showed a full range of injury severity, with most patients having severe or moderate injuries (mean, ). Patients mean interval between injury and admission to rehabilitation was days. Mean LOS in inpatient rehabilitation was days. Measures Therapy hours. As part of the TBIMS data collection protocol, information is collected on the total number of minutes spent in inpatient rehabilitation therapy. 3 Values reflect actual time in therapy and the time required for chart documentation. Typically, more than 90% of therapy hours is composed of hands-on intervention. Separate totals are also recorded for 4 therapy types: speech, occupational, physical, and psychologic. For each therapy type, the total number of minutes was divided by 60 to yield the number of therapy hours. Therapy intensity. To control for variations in LOS, an intensity score depicting daily therapy hours was computed for each of the 4 therapy types. For each patient, the total number of therapy hours was divided by LOS (days). No distinction was made between services provided on weekends and weekdays. Total therapy hours per day. For each patient, the sum of speech, occupational, psychologic, and physical therapy hours was calculated and divided by the LOS. Rehabilitation charges. Total rehabilitation charges for each patient were obtained from billing records. FIM instrument. The FIM was completed at both admission and discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. This instrument is an 18-item rating scale that assesses patients levels of independence. Each item is rated on a scale of 1 (total assistance) to 7 (complete independence). Scores range from a minimum of 18 to a maximum of 126. The FIM identifies levels of independence in self-care, mobility, bowel and bladder management, communication, cognition, and psychosocial adjustment The following scores were calculated from the FIM: (1) FIM motor score, derived from the subscale containing the 13 items relevant to mobility, daily living skills, and continence; (2) FIM cognitive score, derived from the subscale containing the 5 items relating to cognition, communication, and psychosocial functioning; (3) FIM change score, determined by subtracting admission scores from discharge scores; (4) cognitive and motor efficiency, determined by dividing FIM motor and cognitive subscale change scores by LOS; (5) functional potential gained, calculated by subtracting each patient s admission score from the maximum subscale score (motor 91; cognitive 35); and (6) functional potential achieved, calculated as the difference between admission and discharge scores, divided by the functional potential gained. As noted by Heinemann, 18 the score reflects the mathematical rather than the biologic potential of each patient.
3 THERAPY INTENSITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Cifu 1443 Settings and Procedures Each of the 3 TBIMS centers provides a comprehensive array of services, including physiatry; nursing; physical, occupational, and speech therapy; social work; psychology; and therapeutic recreation. Treatment protocols are individualized to meet patients unique needs and levels of functioning. All centers have been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Admission and discharge decisions are based on CARF guidelines, patients capabilities to participate in acute rehabilitation programs, a viable discharge plan, patients needs, and funding availability. As part of the TBIMS protocol, comprehensive data are collected for each patient, including demographics, injury severity, medical treatment and complications, types of therapy received, LOS, and rehabilitation costs. Data are gathered and coded by experienced staff members through record reviews, patient and family interviews, and consultation with treatment professionals. The FIM is completed by 1 or more members of the rehabilitation team within 72 hours after rehabilitation admission and 72 hours before discharge. Statistical Analyses Means, SDs, and ranges were calculated for all variables. Linear multiple regression was used to determine whether therapy intensity was predicted by age and admission variables, including (1) FIM cognitive and motor subscale scores at admission; (2) the interval between injury and admission to rehabilitation; and (3) whether rehabilitation was continuous or interrupted. Histograms and skewness statistics showed that the distributions for onset-admission interval, LOS, and hospital charges were skewed. Logarithms for onset-admission interval, LOS, and hospital charges were used to correct for skewness. We did a 2-step multiple regression analysis to determine the relation between therapy intensity and functional outcomes. Step 1 contained nontherapy variables such as age, logarithm of onset-admission interval, logarithm of LOS, interruption in rehabilitation (dummy coded as 0 no, 1 yes), and FIM cognitive and motor subscale scores at discharge. Step 2 contained therapy intensity variables for physical, psychologic, occupational, and speech therapies. To distinguish the contribution of each variable set, the R 2 values were examined incrementally after each step. RESULTS Variance of Therapy Intensities Descriptive statistics for therapy intensities and total therapy hours were examined because of concerns about limited variance in intensities among patients (table 1). Evaluation of scatterplots and histograms shows relatively normal distributions for intensities of all 4 therapy types but suggests a restricted range of intensities. Most patients received occupational (95.5%), physical (95.9%), speech (94.7%), and psychologic (86.4%) therapies. On average, patients received the most occupational therapy per day, with a mean of 1.09 hours, or approximately 65 minutes, followed by physical therapy (mean,.90h, or 54min), speech therapy (mean,.58h, or 35min), and psychologic services (mean,.32h, or 19min). SDs ranged from.55 hours (33min) for occupational therapy to.27 hours (16min) for psychologic services. The mean number of total therapy hours per day was 2.91 (2h, 55min), with an SD of 1.09 hours (1h, 5min). The 95th percentile was 4.36 hours. Examination of the percentiles shows that few people received more than 2 hours a day of 1 type of therapy. The 95th percentile cutoff was 1.02 hours a day for speech therapy, 1.53 Table 1: Therapy Hours and Intensities Mean SD Minimum Maximum Total therapy hours PT OT Psychologic therapy Speech therapy Therapy intensity (h/d) PT OT Psychologic therapy Speech therapy Abbreviations: PT, physical therapy; OT, occupational therapy. hours a day for physical therapy, 1.78 hours a day for occupational therapy, and.86 hours a day of psychologic services. In our analysis, we did not examine differences between services provided on weekends and weekdays. Table 2 presents the amount of each type of therapy and total therapy hours received in the course of a day. These results indicate that variance is small for each type of therapy and for total therapy hours. Interpretation of regression analyses should consider the relatively small amount of variance for patients receiving each type of therapy. Cognitive and Motor Scores Patients mean FIM cognitive admission score was , and their mean FIM motor admission score was The mean cognitive discharge score was , and the mean motor discharge score was , yielding mean change scores of and , respectively. Predictions of Therapeutic Intensity Multiple regression analyses were used to determine whether age, functional status at admission, interruption in rehabilitation, LOS, or onset-admission interval predicted therapy intensity. Table 3 shows the results of regression analyses for each of the 4 therapeutic intensities and total number of therapy hours per day. R 2 values did not differ significantly from 0 for occupational or physical therapy intensities. Models for psychologic (R 2.130, F 5, , P.001), speech (R 2.063, F 5, , P.001), and total therapy hours per day (R 2.045, F 5, , P.01) differed significantly from 0. Lower age and shorter onset-admission interval were significant predictors of increased psychologic therapy intensity. FIM motor score at admission was a significant predictor of speech therapy. The higher the motor score, the more that speech therapy was provided. The number of total therapy hours per day was significantly predicted by age, with older patients receiving less therapy per day. Therapy Intensity and Cognitive Outcome Examination of cognitive outcomes indicates that therapeutic intensity did not contribute to gains in cognitive ability. Age and admission variables entered as set 1 predicted a significant amount of the variance for cognitive discharge scores (R 2.476, F 6,403 change , P.001), cognitive potential achieved (R 2.100, F 6,403 change 7.478, P.001), and cognitive efficiency (R 2.312, F 6,403 change , P.001). Beta weight and squared semipartial correlations for each cognitive outcome are provided in tables 4 through 6. In each case,
4 1444 THERAPY INTENSITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Cifu Table 2: Hours of Therapy Per Day Occupational Psychologic Physical Speech n % Cum% n % Cum% n % Cum% n % Cum% 0h/d h/d h/d h/d h/d h/d Total N NOTE. Values may not equal 100% due to rounding. Abbreviation: Cum%, cumulative percentage. Total Hours Per Day n % Cum % 0h/d h/d h/d h/d h/d h/d h/d Total when therapeutic intensities were entered in set 2, they did not significantly add to the predictive model. Therapy Intensity and Motor Outcome Motor outcomes were also significantly predicted by set 1 age and admission variables. Beta weight and squared semipartial correlations for each motor outcome are provided in tables 4 through 6. After step 1, FIM motor discharge (R 2.405, F 6,402 change , P.001), motor potential achieved (R F 6,400 change , P.001), and motor efficiency (R 2.394, F 6,402 change , P.001) were significant. Onset-admission interval and FIM motor admission score were significant predictors in all models. FIM cognitive admission score was a significant predictor of motor potential achieved, but not of motor efficiency or FIM motor discharge score. Longer LOS in rehabilitation significantly predicted greater motor potential achieved and lower motor efficiency. Therapy intensity yielded a significant addition to the predicted variance for FIM motor discharge score (R 2 change.064, F 4,398 change , P.001), FIM motor potential achieved (R 2 change.099, F 4,396 change , P.001), and FIM motor efficiency (R 2 change.074, F 4,398 change , P.001). For all 3 models, speech and physical therapy were significant predictors, whereas psychologic and occupational therapies did not contribute significantly to motor outcome at discharge. Therapy Intensity and Rehabilitation LOS Age and admission status significantly predicted rehabilitation LOS (R 2.576, F 4,411 change , P.001). FIM motor admission score, FIM cognitive admission score, and onset-admission interval were significant predictors of rehabilitation LOS. Results of this analysis are presented in table 7. The addition of the therapy intensity variables to the model did not significantly increase prediction. Therapy Intensity and Rehabilitation Charges Sets that included the same variables used for models of functional status were also used in hierarchical regression to Table 3: Regression Analyses for 4 Therapeutic Intensities OT OT r 2 PT PT r 2 Psych Psych r 2 Speech Speech r 2 Total h/d Total r 2 Age Admission cognition Admission motor Interrupted rehab Onset-admission interval R F df P Abbreviations: Psych, psychologic; rehab, rehabilitation.
5 THERAPY INTENSITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Cifu 1445 Table 4: FIM Outcome Scores Discharge Motor Discharge Cognitive Step 1 Step 2 Step 1 Step 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 Age and admission variables (step 1) Age Admission cognition Admission motor Onset-admission interval LOS Interrupted stay R 2 change (step 1) F change df 6,402 6,403 Therapy intensities (step 2) PT (h/d) OT (h/d) Speech therapy (h/d) Psychologic therapy (h/d) R 2 change F change df 4,398 4,399 R 2 total F df 10,309 10,399 evaluate the effect of therapeutic intensities on hospital charges (table 7). After age and admission variables were entered at step 1 (R 2.628, F 6,399 change , P.001), rehabilitation LOS was the primary significant predictor of rehabilitation charges (P.001). Rehabilitation LOS uniquely accounted for approximately 24% of the variance. The addition of therapy intensities significantly increased prediction, with an additional 1.3% of the variance accounted for (R 2.013, F 4,572 change 3.572, P.01). Physical therapy intensity was a significant predictor of increased rehabilitation charges. Table 5: FIM Potential Achieved Discharge Motor Potential Achieved Discharge Cognitive Potential Achieved Step 1 Step 2 Step 1 Step 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 Age and admission variables (step 1) Age Admission cognition Admission motor Onset-admission interval LOS Interrupted stay R 2 change (step 1) F change df 6,400 6,403 Therapy intensities (step 2) PT (h/d) OT (h/d) Speech therapy (h/d) Psych therapy (h/d) R 2 change F change df 4,396 4,399 R 2 total F df 10,396 10,399
6 1446 THERAPY INTENSITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Cifu Table 6: FIM Efficiency Motor Efficiency Cognitive Efficiency Step 1 Step 2 Step 1 Step 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 Age and admission variables (step 1) Age Admission cognition Admission motor Onset-admission interval LOS Interrupted stay R 2 change (step 1) F change df 6,402 6,403 Therapy intensities (step 2) PT (h/d) OT (h/d) Speech therapy (h/d) Psych therapy (h/d) R 2 change F change df 4,398 4,399 R 2 Total F df 10,398 10,399 DISCUSSION For many years, rehabilitation clinicians have advocated for patients access to rehabilitation services. Their advocacy stems from a belief that higher intensities of medical, therapy, social work, psychologic, nursing, and other rehabilitative services yield improved outcomes. Unfortunately, research into the benefits of more intensive services has been limited. The overwhelming majority of studies have focused on speech, occupational, and physical therapies. Research findings suggest that there is a tenuous relation between the intensity of therapy services provided after TBI and the functional outcome. For example, early researchers 15,16 Table 7: LOS and Charges Rehabilitation LOS Rehabilitation Charges Step 1 Step 2 Step 1 Step 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 r 2 Age and admission variables (step 1) Age Admission cognition Admission motor Onset-admission interval Interrupted stay LOS R 2 change (step 1) F change df 5,411 6,399 Therapy intensities (step 2) PT (h/d) OT (h/d) Speech therapy (h/d) Psych therapy (h/d) R 2 change F change df 4,407 4,395 R 2 total F
7 THERAPY INTENSITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Cifu 1447 found that patients who received more overall hours of therapy were more likely to have shorter LOSs, greater levels of independence in self-care, and improved mobility. Later researchers 17,18 reported equivocal findings. Many insurers dictate minimum amounts of therapy. Patient endurance, personnel, and financial allocation constraints control the upper limits of service delivery. Such boundaries have led to assertions that equivocal findings are attributable to limited variance in therapy services between patients. Our study provides information about variability in service delivery patterns for specific types of therapies. Substantial variation was noted. For example, occupational therapy was the most intensively provided service. Approximately 15% of the patients received 30 minutes or less a day, whereas 18% received more than 90 minutes. Similar patterns of variation were found for physical, psychologic, and speech therapy. As one might expect, more substantial variation was found in the total number of daily therapy hours. Approximately 17% of patients received 2 hours or less of daily therapy services, whereas another 8% received more than 4 hours. Weekend and weekday service delivery patterns were not examined, and future research separating the 2 may prove helpful. Heinemann et al 18 attributed variations in therapy intensity to differences in age, admission functional status, interruption in care, and acute care LOS. We used regression analysis to examine their assertion. Analyses indicated that age predicted the intensity of both psychologic and total therapy services. Perhaps because of ageism bias, greater functional reserve, and higher endurance, younger persons received a greater intensity of services. Acute care LOS was also a significant predictor of psychologic services. Shorter LOSs were associated with higher intensities of psychologic services. Only the admission motor FIM score was relevant in predicting speech services intensity, with higher motor scores being associated with higher intensity speech services. None of the variables was useful in predicting the intensity of occupational or physical therapy services. In summary, age, acute LOS, and admission motor FIM scores were the most useful predictor variables, and the intensity of cognitively based therapies was most predictable. Our results support Heinemann s assertions about salient predictors of therapy intensity. Research has provided little evidence of a relation between the intensity of therapy services and cognitive outcome at rehabilitation discharge. Spivack et al 17 reported that therapy intensity was not related to cognitively mediated physical skills. Similarly, Heinemann 18 found that the intensity of physical, occupational, and speech therapy services was unrelated to cognitive outcome. However, Heinemann also noted that the intensity of psychologic services was associated with improved cognitively based outcome at rehabilitation discharge. We found no relation between therapy intensity and cognitive functioning at rehabilitation discharge. Aronow 16 provided evidence that rehabilitation therapy services are effective. Our study has provided data that help to substantiate the efficacy of speech and physical therapy services. The intensity of these services predicted FIM motor discharge score, FIM motor potential achieved, and FIM motor efficiency. Similar to the findings reported by Spivack 17 and Heinemann, 18 psychologic and occupational therapy intensity did not predict functional motor outcomes. Some clinicians have asserted that increased therapy intensity is costly because of the additional personnel needed. Yet others have argued that added therapy costs are justified because increased service intensity improves efficiency by reducing LOS. For example, in 1990, Blackerby 15 indicated that increased overall therapy intensity was associated with decreased LOS. However, arguments have continued, because few investigators have examined the relation among intensity of services, LOS, and charges. Our study provides little evidence that LOS or charges are related to therapy intensity. The primary limitations of our study should be acknowledged. First, because of ethical considerations, the investigators did not randomly assign patients to treatment groups with varying treatment intensities. Second, we used ordinal-level data that were subjected to parametric analysis. Third, the use of multiple regression, a form of correlational analysis, raises questions about causation. Fourth, data were collected on a limited number of clinical services. For example, data regarding the intensity of nursing or therapeutic recreation services were not collected. Finally, data were collected solely at TBIMS rehabilitation centers, which can raise questions about generalization. Keith 23 described the challenges of evaluating therapy efficacy in a research context, arguing that equivocal findings may be attributable to variations in treatment and provider characteristics. We did not collect data about service types (eg, assessment vs treatment), provider credentials and experience, or the nature of treatment goals (eg, skill improvement vs education). Collecting more specific information in future studies will permit more careful analysis of therapy benefits and make possible more rigorous comparisons between studies. CONCLUSIONS Practitioners who manage patients with acute infectious processes have established evidence-based guidelines to help them in prescribing the specific type and intensity of services (ie, varying dosing of differing antibiotics). In contrast, physicians who prescribe inpatient rehabilitation for patients with acute disabilities after TBI have few empirically based guidelines. In most cases, these patients are offered a generic package of services that includes nursing care, physician monitoring, psychologic and social work intervention, speech therapy, and physical and occupational therapy services. In a few cases, patients with special needs (eg, non weight bearing, contact precautions) may receive more specialized and intensive services. However, the type and intensity of the services provided are invariably determined by minimal standards that have been established by insurers, and by the availability of staffing. Several single-center investigations have delineated the benefits of interdisciplinary inpatient TBI rehabilitation. 18,24 Our study is among the first multicenter efforts to examine the potential benefits of individual therapy services. 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