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Table 2 Therapy utilization

From: Patterns of utilization and effects of hospital-specific factors on physical, occupational, and speech therapy for critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure in the USA: results of a 5-year sample

Outcomes

Physical therapy

Occupational therapy

Speech therapy

Received therapy during hospitalization

175,611 (66.5%)

108,312 (41.0%)

87,770 (33.2%)

Received therapy and MV on the same day

63,639 (36.2%)

32,183 (29.7%)

26,270 (29.9%)

Time to initiation of therapy (days after intubation) [25–75% quartile]

4.0 [2.0–7.0]

5.0 [3.0–9.0]

5.0 [3.0–9.0]

Length of therapy (days) [25–75% quartile]

3.0 [2.0–6.0]

2.0 [1.0–4.0]

3.0 [1.0–4.0]

Median odds ratio (SD)

1.61 (0.03)

2.87 (0.11)

1.70 (0.03)