Systematic development of an implementation strategy to promote high-intensity rehabilitation uptake in skilled nursing facilities.
Lauren A Hinrichs-Kinney, Emma H Beisheim-Ryan, Katie A Butera and 3 others
PMID 40387256WHAT IT FOUND
This paper describes the development of an 18-week training package to help therapists in skilled nursing facilities adopt high-intensity rehab.
It reports no patient outcomes or effectiveness data, so it offers a blueprint for implementation rather than evidence that the strategy works.
Key findings
01The implementation strategy was developed over ten months using expert panel consensus and implementation mapping.
02The final strategy is an 18-week phased approach involving onboarding, training, and facilitated implementation delivered online.
03The paper outlines the planning phase only; evaluation of clinician adoption and patient outcomes will occur in future work.
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What it does not show
The study reports no patient or clinical outcomes; it is a description of a development process. The expert panel included only five people, and some had prior experience with the specific intervention, which may have biased the identification of barriers. Patients and clinicians from the actual SNFs where the strategy will be used were not involved in the initial development. The feasibility of the development process (time, cost, effort) was not measured.
Declared interests
The funder (U.S. Government/NIH) played no role in the design, conduct, or reporting of the work.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this implementation strategy has been proven effective. The paper describes the creation of the training package but reports no data on whether it actually increased clinician adoption of high-intensity rehab or improved patient function.
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