Cancellation Criteria of Acute Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation Risk Management.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate risk management during acute rehabilitation in cases where rehabilitation was canceled after prescription.
METHODS: Rehabilitation cases that were judged to be canceled after prescription in our hospital between April 1, 2017, and September 30, 2017, were investigated prospectively. The following parameters were examined: the total number of canceled rehabilitation therapies, the age and sex of the patients, the rehabilitation categories, the reasons for cancellation of rehabilitation, the clinical course after cancellation of rehabilitation, the number of cancellation cases with reasons corresponding to the cancellation criteria from the officially issued guidelines of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the applicable elements of the cancellation criteria.
RESULTS: Of the 2263 patients prescribed rehabilitation during the investigation period, rehabilitation was canceled in 110 (4.9%). The reasons for discontinuation were changes in vital signs in 53.6% of these 110 patients. Among the 21 patients in whom rehabilitation was stopped because of decreased oxygen saturation, six were found to have symptomatic pulmonary thromboembolism. In 92.8% of canceled cases, the reasons for cancellation corresponded to the cancellation criteria of rehabilitation. No serious adverse events were noted during the study period.
CONCLUSION: The judgments of discontinuation of rehabilitation in this study were similar to the cancellation criteria of rehabilitation. Acute rehabilitation should be performed under the control of the cancellation criteria of rehabilitation. ©2019 The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine.