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Vicki Eicher1, David B Salisbury, Thomas F Murphy
1Author Affiliations: Quality Management, ReMed Recovery Care Centers, Paoli, Pennsylvania (Eicher); Clinical Operations, Pate Neuro Rehabilitation/Rehab Without Walls, Irving, Texas (Dr Salisbury); Inventive Software Solutions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Murphy); On With Life, Ankeny, Iowa (Dr Shelton); National Director of Outcomes, Collage Rehabilitation Partners, Paoli, Pennsylvania (Dr Altman); Foundation to Advance Brain Rehabilitation (FABR); Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana (Dr Malec); and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (Dr Malec).
Objective:
To describe the history, organization, goals, and data management procedures of the Foundation to Advance Brain Rehabilitation (FABR).
Setting:
Postacute brain injury rehabilitation following acute inpatient care.
Key Points:
FABR was incorporated in 2019 with a primary mission to advance brain rehabilitation through scientific and strategic analysis of industry-wide data. Contributing FABR member organizations include Bancroft NeuroRehab, Collage Rehabilitation Partners, On With Life, Pate NeuroRehabilitation, and Shepherd Center. These organizations contribute demographic, admission, discharge, and follow-up data on persons served in 5 types of intensive posthospital brain injury rehabilitation programs (neurobehavioral residential, neurorehabilitation residential, home and community neurorehabilitation, day treatment, and outpatient) and 3 types of supported living programs (neurobehavioral residential, residential, and community-based) to a collaborative database managed by Inventive Software Solutions. Inventive Software Solutions provides FABR researchers with a dataset that is de-identified both for participant and organizational identifying information.
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