September 21, 2022 | Today’s News
Today's Top Story Study: Comparison of Nursing versus Physical Therapy Evaluations and 90-day Outcome Predictions in TJA Patients A retrospective study published online in the Journal of the AAOS ® investigated whether the use of the Activity Measure for Post-acute Care (AM-PAC) scoring system by nurses could substitute scoring by physical therapists (PTs) or predict 90-day outcomes after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). AM-PAC evaluations were administered by nurses and PTs within 24 hours of surgery in 1,119 [...]