The Case for Aggregated Rehabilitation-Relevant Data Across Health Care Systems and Settings.

WHAT IT FOUND

This piece argues that physical therapy's value remains unknown because data on costs and outcomes are scattered and hard to combine.

It proposes building better registries but offers no evidence that any specific intervention works.

What this paper is

This is an expert commentary arguing that physical therapy needs better aggregated data from electronic health records to prove its value. It discusses policy, reimbursement models, and potential registry designs, but reports no patients, no measurements, and no outcomes. There is nothing here to change your clinical practice on.

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