A call for action: Increasing the pediatric rehabilitation medicine workforce.
Margaret A Turk, Bruce M Gans, Heakyung Kim, Katharine E Alter
PMID 37718879WHAT IT FOUND
There are no clinical findings to report.
This article is a policy commentary calling for a commission to address the shortage of pediatric rehabilitation physicians. It contains no patient data or treatment outcomes.
What this paper is
This is a commentary and policy proposal regarding the pediatric rehabilitation medicine workforce. It discusses survey limitations, disability prevalence, and economic factors, but reports no original clinical data or patient outcomes. There is no finding here to change your practice with patients.
Declared interests
Dr. Turk is funded by the CDC and is Co-Editor-in-Chief for a related journal. The other authors declare no conflicts but disclose long careers in the specialty they are advocating for.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret this as evidence that current rehabilitation workforce shortages negatively impact patient outcomes. The authors state that access limitations are not well characterized and have not been systematically demonstrated.