School-Based Physical Therapy Services: Predicting the Gap Between Ideal and Actual Embedded Services.

Purpose: To ascertain the variables predicting the gap between ideal and actual practice in embedding school-based physical therapy services.

Methods: School-based physical therapists completed an online survey estimating ideal and actual practice of embedding physical therapy services. Predictive modeling was used to determine whether disability, interventions, goals, families, teachers, workload, billing, and/or contracts predicted the gap between estimated ideal and actual practice.