Symposium

Limb Restoration Rehabilitation

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Cross-Cutting

Health Services Research

Limb Loss Preservation-Restoration-Rehabilitation Continuum Design, Development, and Implementation (826800)

Presenter(s)

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  Prateek Grover, MD, PhD, MHA

  Assistant Professor; Medical Director
  Washington University in St Louis; The Rehabilitation Institute of St Louis
  Chesterfield, Missouri

  Presentation Slides
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  John M. Felder, MD, FACS

  Assistant Professor of Surgery
  Washington University School of Medicine
  Alton, Illinois

  Presentation Slides
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  John P. Kirby, MD, MS, FACS

  Associate Professor of Surgery
  Washington University School of Medicine
  St Louis, Missouri
• RS

  Rachel Skladman

Outcomes after lower limb amputation depend not only on prosthetic device used but also on the healthcare services provided after surgery. This continuum of health services across various levels of care requires close coordination to ensure that persons with limb loss complete this journey with minimal complications, best possible process and functional outcomes, and optimized resource utilization.
This symposium focuses on design, development, and implementation principles of such a healthcare continuum for acquired lower extremity limb loss, with the goal of providing guidelines for other institutions to establish similar continuums of care for persons with limb loss.

A non-academic health system in a semi-urban setting and an academic healthcare system in an urban setting are used to illustrate the evidence-based healthcare strategy principles incorporated in study design as well as project management and quality improvement principles utilized for project implementation and outcomes monitoring.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the lower extremity limb loss healthcare continuum
• Describe how limb preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation integrate the care continuum
• Describe principles of acquired limb loss continuum database design, development, and implementation
• Describe principles of acquired limb loss continuum design, development, and implementation