Publications by authors named "B M Rodstein"
Background And Purpose: The criteria for determining the level of postacute care for patients with stroke are variable and inconsistent. The purpose of this study was to identify key factors influencing the selection of postacute level of care for these patients.
Methods: We used a collaborative 4-round Delphi process to achieve a refined list of factors influencing postacute level of care selection.
Are Stroke Survivors Discharged to the Recommended Postacute Setting?
Arch Phys Med Rehabil
July 2020
Objective: To examine the processes and barriers involved in providing postdischarge stroke care.
Design: Prospective study of discharge planners' (DP) and physical therapists' (PT) interpretation of factors contributing to patients' discharge destination.
Setting: Twenty-three hospitals in the northeastern United States.
Background: Although utilization review is widely used to control health care costs, its effect on patterns of health care is uncertain.
Methods: In 1989, New York City and its unions temporarily replaced actual utilization review with sham review for half the participants in the city's fee-for-service health insurance plan. We compared the health services provided to 3702 enrollees whose requests were subjected to utilization review (the review group) with the services provided to 3743 enrollees whose requests received sham review and were automatically approved for insurance coverage (the nonreview group).