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. 2019 Aug 21;15(3):221–225. doi: 10.1007/s11420-019-09715-w

Table 2.

Acute care outcomes compared between telerehabilitation patients and traditional therapy patients

Metric Telerehabilitation patients Traditional therapy patients discharged to home p value
Volume 40 614
N (%) N (%)
Unexpected return to OR 0 1 (0.2%) 1
Unplanned return to ICU 0 1 (0.2%) 1
Transfusion rate 1 (2.5%) 6 (1.0%) 0.358
Pneumonia 0 0
Pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis 0 0
Sepsis 0 0
Hematoma 0 0
Surgical site infection 0 0
Myocardial infarction 0 0
Mechanical complication 0 2 (0.3%) 1
Length of stay 2.2 2.2
Readmission 30 days 1 (2.5%) 26 (4.2%) 0.498
Mortality acute care 30 days 0 1 (0.2%) 0.939
Readmission 90 days 1 (2.5%) 35 (5.7%) 0.337
ED visit within 90 days (includes readmissions) 4 (10%) 60 (9.8%) 1

OR operating room, ICU intensive care unit