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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSOC, INC
DOI: 10.5014/ajot.2015.014639
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- Judith Friedland Fund for Occupational Therapy in Oncology and Palliative Care, University of Toronto
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Chair in Gender, Work and Health [CGW-126580]
- CIHR
- Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario for a Doctoral Research Award
- Brain Canada-CIBC for a Brain Cancer Training Award
- Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation
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Data on the utilization of occupational therapy among patients with brain tumors have been limited to those with malignant tumors and small samples of patients outside North America in specialized palliative care settings. We built on this research by examining the characteristics of patients with brain tumors who received postacute occupational therapy services in Ontario, Canada, using health care administrative data. Between fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2008-2009, 3,199 patients with brain tumors received occupational therapy services in the home care setting after hospital discharge; 12.4% had benign brain tumors, 78.2% had malignant brain tumors, and 9.4% had unspecified brain tumors. However, patients with benign brain tumors were older (mean age = 63.3 yr), and a higher percentage were female (65.2%). More than 90% of patients received in-home occupational therapy services. Additional research is needed to examine the significance of these differences and to identify factors that influence access to occupational therapy services in the home care setting.
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