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ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
Volume 95, Issue 1, Pages S6-S16Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2013.03.032
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Classification; Information storage and retrieval; Rehabilitation; Terminology as topic; Therapeutics
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [H133A080053]
- National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education Services, Department of Education [H133A080053]
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The idea of constructing a taxonomy of rehabilitation interventions has been around for quite some time, but other than small and mostly ad hoc efforts, not much progress has been made, in spite of articulate pleas by some well-respected clinician scholars. In this article, treatment taxonomies used in health care, and in rehabilitation specifically, are selectively reviewed, with a focus on the need to base a rehabilitation treatment taxonomy (RTT) on the active ingredients of treatments and their link to patient/client deficits/problems that are targeted in therapy. This is followed by a description of what we see as a fruitful approach to the development of an RTT that crosses disciplines, settings, and patient diagnoses, and a discussion of the potential uses in and benefits of a well-developed RTT for clinical service, research, education, and service administration. (C) 2014 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
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