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	<title>Inside MossRehab &#187; Health policy</title>
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		<title>MossRehab Educational Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educating Physical Therapists
At the American Physical Therapy Association annual conference in February, a group of professionals from MossRehab’s Drucker Brain Injury Center shared their expertise with a packed crowd of physical therapists. Clinical Director Thomas Watanabe, MD, along with neurposychologist Claire McGrath, PhD, and physical therapists Carolyn Tassini, PT, and Andrew Packel, PT, delivered a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Beyond ADA Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a rehabilitation provider, MossRehab is not content to simply comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—rather, our clinicians are actively involved in conceiving and implementing new ideas for increasing accessibility for our patients.
Critiquing Policy
In 2007, John Whyte, MD, PhD, director of Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, was a member of a disability research committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cross-National Comparison of TBI Outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 1980s, the United States has seen a gradual decline in the duration and intensity of treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Largely a response to economic pressures, this trend has raised the question of whether shortened, less intensive TBI treatment adversely affects patient outcomes. A definitive answer may soon be found through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chairman&#8217;s Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mossrehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has proposed the idea of “bundling” reimbursements for both acute and post-acute care into a single payment to acute care hospitals. His administration expects bundled payments to reduce readmission rates, improve efficiency and cut Medicare costs by almost $19 billion over the next ten years.
In reality, bundled payments would reduce access to post-acute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering the Call: MossRehab Helps Outpatients Stay Connected with Lifelong Living Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.insidemossrehab.org/diseases-disorders/lifelong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muscle tone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When persons are discharged back to their homes following an acute inpatient rehab stay, celebration can quickly give way to bewilderment. Even after months or years of functional improvement, they may be stunned by the difficulty of common household tasks. Worse still, some may experience a profound sense of isolation, as they discover that participating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulmonary Management of a Patient With Complete Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury and Coexisting Internal Injuries</title>
		<link>http://www.insidemossrehab.org/diseases-disorders/pulmonary-management-of-a-patient-with-complete-thoracic-spinal-cord-injury-and-coexisting-internal-injuries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mossrehab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Amy C. Van Dyke, PT; Janet Parker, MSPT; Robin Myers, PT, NCS MossRehab Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency Program, Philadelphia, PA
  Click here to view poster
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		<title>MossRehab’s Patient Outcomes in 2007 Exceed National and Regional Averages</title>
		<link>http://www.insidemossrehab.org/diseases-disorders/mossrehab-fims-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.insidemossrehab.org/diseases-disorders/mossrehab-fims-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mossrehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MossRehab is committed to optimizing our patients’ function and quality of life. As part of this commitment to quality, we grade ourselves each year by quantifying the functional gains our patients make. Using the Functional Independence Measure™ (FIM™), an instrument widely employed in the rehabilitation industry, we track our patient’s admission and discharge status in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postacute rehabilitation research and policy recommendations.</title>
		<link>http://www.insidemossrehab.org/functional-domains-other-topics/postacute-rehabilitation-research-and-policy-recommendations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mossrehab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Functional Domains & Other Topics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dexanne B. Clohan, MD, Elizabeth M. Durkin, PhD, Joy Hammel, PhD, Patrick Murray, MD, MS, John Whyte, MD, PhD, Marcel Dijkers, PhD, Bruce M. Gans, MD, Daniel E. Graves, PhD, Allen W. Heinemann, PhD, Greg Worsowicz, MD.
HealthSouth, Birmingham, AL, USA.
This article summarizes the research and health policy recommendations developed by participants at the symposium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial differences in caregiving patterns, caregiver emotional function, and sources of emotional support following traumatic brain injury.</title>
		<link>http://www.insidemossrehab.org/diseases-disorders/racial-differences-in-caregiving-patterns-caregiver-emotional-function-and-sources-of-emotional-support-following-traumatic-brain-injury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mossrehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tessa Hart, PhD, Therese M. O&#8217;Neil-Pirozzi, ScD, CCC-SLP, Kelli D. Williams, MPH, MS, OTR/L, Lisa J. Rapport, PhD, Flora Hammond, MD, Jeffery Kreutzer, PhD.
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
OBJECTIVE: Compare white and African American caregivers of people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treatments to enhance recovery from the vegetative and minimally conscious states: ethical issues surrounding efficacy studies.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mossrehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John Whyte, MD, PhD.
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials have been argued to provide the strongest test of efficacy and, as such, are important tools for advancing the evidence base supporting rehabilitation treatment. However, such trials present difficult ethical issues, because one group, by definition, receives [...]]]></description>
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