Author, Year

Country

Objectives

Main results

Type of

Evaluation

Hospital

Rehabilitation

Public Health Service/System

Stucki & Jerome, 2017

Germany

Optimization of the learning system and implementation of a single functionality classification system (ICF) in rehabilitation bringing functional information as fundamental to the health system. Directing necessary attention to patient demand, such as assisting in management level and public policies guiding rehabilitation programs.

A health learning system for rehabilitation must make use of the ICF, obtaining standardization of information coding and functionality, ensuring sustainable assistance in the impact of the health system, reaching the highest level, which are public policies, which can be more targeted to really have the greatest need, leading to better quality at all levels of health.

Descriptive

Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy

German Health System

Molini-Avejonas et al., 2017

Brazil

To analyze the flow of patients in a high complexity Speech Therapy service in the Unified Health System (SUS).

More than half of the users were referred for Tertiary care, it was observed that some diagnoses/treatments could be performed primarily in the primary sector. The average waiting time was 56.6 days. The network does not use the factor of counter-referencing the patient within the network itself, overloading the secondary care and tertiary.

Descriptive

Speech Therapy

SUS

Capó-Juan, 2016

Spain

The main objective of this review is to disseminate the benefit of educational-therapeutic programs in physical therapy as tools for coping with pain.

It allows the patient to present good results and control symptoms in some pathologies and may favor a more adequate use of health resources, since these patients could demand less specialized services, as it can improve quality of life and control symptoms of Asthmatic patients and COPD. Cardiac patients also benefited from an educational rehabilitation plan.

Retrospective observational

Physiotherapy

Large sized and highly complex hospital in the city of São Paulo

Hammond et al., 2015

United States/ Canada

Describe the amount and content of group therapies provided during the rehabilitation of hospitalized patients due to traumatic brain injury and evaluate group therapy relationships with the patient, injury and treatment factors and results.

Hospitalizations and rehospitalizations of these patients have generated an increase in cost.

Cost-effectiveness

Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist

Primary Care of Spain

Dijkers, Whiteneck, & Gassaway, 2013

United States/ Canada

To present the effectiveness of a Hospital Rehabilitation program for patients with spinal cord injury.

Patients who underwent more intensive hospital physiotherapy had a lower chance of hospitalization.

Cost-effectiveness

Physiotherapy

Large private hospital in the United States and Canada