Subacute rehabilitation, a recent innovation, is a less intense form of traditional inpatient rehabilitation. This study is a retrospective comparison of stroke treatment in a comprehensive inpatient service (acute rehabilitation) and subacute rehabilitation in a skilled nursing facility. Consecutive records during 1990 and 1991 resulted in 331 patients at the acute level and 97 at the subacute...

This study examined the construct validity of the physical functioning and cognition scales of the federally mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) via Rasch analysis. We performed a secondary analysis of retrospective MDS data collected by the Department of Veteran Affairs Austin Automation Center. Items demonstrated unidimensionality and represented two separate constructs: physical functioning and ...

The purpose of this study was to identify preoperative predictors of length of stay after primary total hip arthroplasty in a patient population reflecting current trends toward shorter hospitalization and using readily obtainable factors that do not require scoring systems. A retrospective review of 112 consecutive patients was performed. High preoperative pain level and patient expectation of...

OBJECTIVES To examine how skilled nursing facility (SNF) nurses transition the care of individuals admitted from hospitals, the barriers they experience, and the outcomes associated with variation in the quality of transitions. DESIGN Qualitative study using grounded dimensional analysis, focus groups, and in-depth interviews. SETTING Five Wisconsin SNFs. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-seven registe...

We measure U.S. publicly traded companies’ exposures to skilled labor risk, i.e., the potential failure in attracting and retaining skilled labor, by the intensity of their discussions on this issue in their 10-K filings. We show that this measure effectively captures firm risk due to the mobility of skilled labor. We find that skilled labor risk is an important determinant of corporate compens...

Experiments in golf putting and darts demonstrated that skilled performance is streaky. The tendency for outcome sequences to form streaks was greatest when the task difficulty was such that about half the trials were successful. Mixtures of the two activities were also streaky, even when periodic interruption made the individual components resemble a random Bernoulli process. Formal models of ...

The Project began consultations and planning with state and district officials in 2007 and helped GOJH to implement the SBA training programme in 2008 in a pilot initiative in Deoghar district. Based on the evidence of improved knowledge and practice of SBA skills and increasing institutional deliveries in Deoghar, GOJH decided to scale up the intervention in all 24 districts of the state in 20...

The present study investigates how skilled and less skilled readers answered a gap-Ž lling (or rational deletion cloze) test in order to examine whether such tests can measure text-level processing ability. Twelve Japanese EFL students (six skilled and six less skilled readers) completed a gap-Ž lling test while thinking aloud about their test-taking processes. Their verbal protocols were categ...

This study examines factors that influence readers’ cognitive processing (i.e., inference generation) and the development of a mental representation text: comprehension skill working memory (WM). Elementary students (N = 61) participated in causal questioning conditions with narrative texts to examine text- knowledge-based inferences generated when probed during versus after reading. Recalls we...

This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less responsive. We leverage the substantial geographic variation in employment losses that occurred during Gr...