Highlights the need for appropriate rehabilitative care and accountability in post-acute settings for hip fracture patients.
Supports attention to post-acute rehab accountability after hip fracture; hypothesis-generating for RCTs to confirm effects and inform standards.
The observation that similar hip fracture patients are discharged to different post-acute settings calls into question both the appropriateness of care delivered in the post-acute period and health system expenditures. As policy makers continue to develop performance-based funding models to increase accountability of institutions in the provision of quality care to hip fracture patients, ensuring patients receive appropriate rehabilitative care is a priority for health system planning.
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