The mission of the Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery Studies in Health Services (ReFReSH) Lab is to improve rehabilitation outcomes and quality of life for adults with acquired brain injuries. Our work aims to improve the quality of rehabilitation services by identifying what combinations of services work best for whom to enable optimal functional performance and community participation. We use a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods to meet these objectives. Research in our lab focuses on:
Understanding recovery trajectories and how the amount and type of therapy is associated with improvement
Developing data visualization approaches that support effective clinical decision making
Advancing outcome measurement and aligning outcome measures with treatment goals
The aims of this training award are to (1) create patient profiles of functional recovery in the domains of self-care, mobility, and cognition for adults with stroke to evaluate the association of how rehabilitation service time as distributed among occupational, physical, and speech-language…
The goal of the study is to develop a translation and implementation strategy for clinically useful prediction models to support stroke rehabilitation for adults admitted to inpatient rehabilitation facilities. This study will produce a prototype translation tool that will be co-designed with…
As a LeaRRn LHS Scholar, Dr. Cogan will partner with Dr. Joe Giacino at Spaulding Rehabilitation, with mentorship from Drs. Mary Slavin and Lewis Kazis. Her project will focus on creation of tools to visualize assessment data from electronic health records to support clinical decision making and…
Advances in science have resulted in many survivors of traumatic brain injury living in disordered states of consciousness for up to two decades. However, we have not advanced the state of the science to foster traumatic brain injury survivor’s functional recovery. A critical challenge in…
The goals of this pilot study were to (1) document procedures for cleaning and managing electronic health record data for research on rehabilitation services and outcomes and (2) explain the association of functional recovery with therapy time and content over an episode of inpatient rehabilitation…
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