Table 5.
Facility-Level Characteristics Reported by Study
| Author (Year) | Specific Facility | Hospital/Freestanding Facility | Number of Beds | Insurance Source Distribution | Ownership | Urban/Rural Location | Income Distribution | Hospital Referral Region | Geographic Location | Teaching Status | Therapy Intensity | Patient Volume | Competition | Wage Index | # of Post-Acute Care Settings | Care Team Size | Care Team Age | Organization Context* | Team Functioning* | Staff Qualifications† | Staffing Ratios‡ | Physical Environment§ | Coordination of Care|| | # of Rehab Training Programs | Availability of Home Health services | Weekend Therapy | Organizational Change | Outpatient Travel Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reker, O’Donnell, and Hamilton (1998) | ☑ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strasser et al. (2005) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ☑ | ☑ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colla et al. (2010) | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dobrez et al. (2010) | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Graham et al. (2013) | ☑ | ☑ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reisetter et al. (2015) | ☑ | ☑ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Site of Care Comparison Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kane et al. (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hoenig et al. (2001) | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | |||||||||||||
| Chen et al. (2002) | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deutsch et al. (2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Buntin et al. (2010) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kind et al. (2010) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wang et al. (2011) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
✓= reported descriptively; ☑ = incorporated into statistical analysis
The organizational context domain was composed of scales for administrative support and supervisor expectations. The team functioning domain was composed of scales for team organization, task orientation, innovation, interprofessional relations, communication, teamness, effectiveness, and utility of quality information.
Composed of variables: nurse specialization in stroke, PT specialization in stroke, # of different physician specialists, # of new graduates, proportion of paraprofessionals.
Nurse, allied health professional, and physician staffing ratios.
Composed of variables: diversity of rehabilitation equipment, ankle-foot orthosis, simulated home environment, adaptive kitchen, adaptive bathroom.
Composed of variables: # of different professionals at team meetings, guideline use, escort service, and rounding therapist as treating therapist.
Abbreviations: skilled nursing facility (SNF), inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF), physical therapy (PT)