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PTJ Author Interview: Development and Validation of the PT-PENCIL
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25 minutes 37 seconds
1 month ago
PTJ Author Interview: Development and Validation of the PT-PENCIL
In this episode of the PTJ Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Steven George, PT, PhD, FAPTA, talks with Brittany Lapin, PhD, Joshua Johnson, PT, DPT, PhD, and Sandra Passek, PT, DPT, about their recently published article on the development and validation of the Physical Therapy Frequency Clinical Decision Support Tool, aka PT-PENCIL. The tool identifies which patients are most likely to benefit from daily physical therapy to be discharged home. The authors discuss what spurred their interest in this research, the study design and methodology of the predictive model, and the potential challenges of using large datasets. Lapin, Passek, and Johnson are co-authors of the article “Development and Validation of PT-PENCIL: The Physical Therapy Frequency Clinical Decision Support Tool to Increase Hospital Discharge to Home (https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/105/9/pzaf093/8198102).” Read the article on the PTJ website and follow PTJ on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ptjournal?trk=public_post_follow-view-profile) and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/ptjournal.bsky.social) for more research updates.
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