October | 2024 | Acute Conversations

Show Notes

Guests:

Thomas “Gus” Almonroeder, PT, DPT, PhD

almonroeder.thomas@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gus-almonroeder-b947691b0/

Tricia Widenhoefer PT

widenhoefert@trine.edu

www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-widenhoefer-084b41144

Guest Quotes:

Gus: “We created kind of a collection of clinical vignettes…reflected patients that were in an acute care setting. We distributed kind of to our local network of therapists… ask them to review the cases… then ask the therapist to make a recommendation: Home with therapy, outpatient therapy, long term acute care, sub acute care, all the kind options that you may consider as an acute care therapist.

And then we looked at the consistency among those different options. And our idea was to kind of look at how consistent is decision making among acute care therapists with making these recommendations, because we knew that’s…one of the key functions of being an acute care therapist is making those recommendations… So that was kind of the crux of our study.”

Rapid Responses:

You know you work in acute care when:

Tricia “you go home “wearing” part of your patients”

Gus “you’ve reached 10,000 steps before noon”

Links:

https://journals.lww.com/jacpt/abstract/2024/07000/consistency_of_physical_therapist_discharge.3.aspx

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