Allied Health in Acute Care

Mills, E., Hume, V. & Stiller, K. (2018). Increased allied health services to general and acute medical units decreases length of stay: comparison with a historical cohort*. Australian Health Review 42, 327-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH16220

Rubin, B., Goldfarb, R., Satele, D., & Graham, L. (2021). Burnout and distress among allied health care professionals in a cardiovascular centre of a Quaternary Hospital Network: A cross-sectional survey. CMAJ Open, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200059

Johnson, J. K., Lohse, B., Bento, H. A., Noren, C. S., Marcus, R. L., & Tonna, J. E. (2019). Improving outcomes for critically ill cardiovascular patients through increased physical therapy staffing. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2018.07.437

Barclay, L., Lalor, A., Furmston, B., Fossey, E., Farnworth, L., Smith, A., & Bourke-Taylor, H. (2020). Occupational therapy and allied health use for older people in acute care: A description of services, time, and readmission in an Australian setting. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 84(8), 507–515. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022620956574

Taylor, N. F., Brusco, N. K., Watts, J. J., Shields, N., Peiris, C., Sullivan, N., Kennedy, G., Cheng Kwong Teo, Farley, A., Lockwood, K., & Radia-George, C. (2010). A study protocol of a randomised controlled trial incorporating a health economic analysis to investigate if additional allied health services forrehabilitation reduce length of stay without compromising patient outcomes. BMC Health Services Research, 10, 308–314. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-308

This is the first report of pediatric physical and occupational therapists' time in performing daily tasks. The metric and tools derived from these findings support managerial decision-making, provide a comparison of actual versus targeted workload. Long, J. T., Neogi, S., Vidonish, W., Badylak, J., & Reder, R. D. (2020). Therapy Workloads in Pediatric Health: Preliminary Findings and Relevance for Defining Practice. Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association, 32(1), 52–59. https://doi.org/10.1097/PEP.0000000000000665

Kim, J. H., Kim, A. R., Kim, M. G., Kim, C. H., Lee, K. H., Park, D., & Hwang, J. M. (2020). Burnout Syndrome and Work-Related Stress in Physical and Occupational Therapists Working in Different Types of Hospitals: Which Group Is the Most Vulnerable?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(14), 5001. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145001

Porter, J., & Wilton, A. (2020). Professional identity of Allied Health staff associated with a Major Health Network organizational restructuring. Nursing & Health Sciences, 22(4), 1103–1110. https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12777

Paykel, M., Ridley, E., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ramanan, M., Booth, S., Cook, K., Ip, K., De Gori, M., Blackshaw, J., Markham, D., Downie, S., & Haines, K. (2022). Allied health surge capacity in Australian intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey. Australian Critical Care. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2022.09.001

Hitch, D., Booth, S., Wynter, K., Said, C. M., Haines, K., Rasmussen, B., & Holton, S. (2022). Worsening general health and psychosocial wellbeing of Australian hospital allied health practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian Health Review : A Publication of the Australian Hospital Association. https://doi.org/10.1071/AH22110

Fisher, M. E., Aristone, M. N., Young, K. K., Waechter, L. E., Landry, M. D., Taylor, L. A., & Cooper, N. S. (2012). Physiotherapy Models of Service Delivery, Staffing, and Caseloads: A Profile of Level I Trauma Centres across Canada. Physiotherapy Canada, 64(4), 377–385. https://doi.org/10.3138/ptc.2011-27

Marston, C., Koye, D. N., Goonan, R., Lim, K., Juj, G., & Klaic, M. (2022). Is there a relationship between intensity of occupational therapy and functional outcomes in hospitalised older patients? A prospective cohort study. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 69(5), 536–545. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1630.12808 This study found that geriatric rehabilitation inpatients who received higher intensity of occupational therapy interventions were more likely to functionally improve than those who received lower intensity.

Sharma, K., Hastings, S. E., Suter, E., & Bloom, J. (2016). Variability of staffing and staff mix across acute care units in Alberta, Canada. Human Resources for Health, 14, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-016-0172-1

Snowdon, D. A., Storr, B., Davis, A., Taylor, N. F., & Williams, C. M. (2020). The effect of delegation of therapy to allied health assistants on patient and organisational outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05312-4