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Appendix A: MedPac (2005). Chapter 5: Payment for Post-acute Care. Report to Congress: Issues in a Modernized Medicare Program. Washington, DC: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPACE), (June 15), 107-113.
Appendix B: Beeuwkes_Buntin M, D Partha, J Escarce, C Hoverman, S Paddock, N Sood (2005). "Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements.: A paper prepared for the Meidcare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Arlington VA: RAND Health. June 15. Also available at MedPAC .
Appendix C: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) (2005). More Specific Criteria Needed to Classify Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. Report to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways and Means. Report No. GAO-05-366. Washington, DC: US Government Accountability Office, April.
Appendix D: National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2005). Workshop to Develop a Research Agenda on Appropriate Settings for Rehabilitation: Summary Report. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, Natinal Institute for Child Health & Human Development, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research.
Appendix E: Weinrich M, Studar M, Hoyer T (2005). Rules for Rehabilitation: an Agenda for Research. Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair, 19:72-83.
Appendix F: Kramer AM, Steiner JF, Schlenker RE, Eilertsen TB, Hrincevich, CA, Tropea DA, et al (1997). Outcomes and Costs after Hip fracture and Stroke. A Comparision of Rehabilitation Settings. JAMA 277(5):396-404.
Appendix G: Deutsch A, Granger C, Fiedler R, DeJong G, Kane R, Ottenbacher K, Heinemann A, Naughton JP, Trevisan M (2005). Outcomes and Reimbursement of Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities and Subacute Rehabilitation for Medicare Beneficiaries with Hip Fracture. Medical Care. September.
Appendix H: Liu K, Black KJ (2003). Hospital-based and Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facilities: Any Cause for Differential Medicare Payments" Inquiry, 40 (Spring), 94-104.
Appendix I: Munin MC, Seligman K, Dew MA, Quear T, Skidmore ER, Gruen G, Reynolds CF, Lenze EJ (2005). Effect of Rehabilitation Site on Functional Recovery after Hip Fracture. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 86 (March), 367.
Appendix J: Munin MC, Rudy TE, Glynn NW, Crossett LS, Rubash HE (1998). Early Inpatient Rehabilitation After Elective Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. JAMA 279(11):847-852.
Appendix K: DeJong G, Horn SD, Gassaway JA, Slavin MD, Dijkers MP (2004). Toward a Taxonomy of Rehabilitation Inverventions: Using an Inductive Approach to Examine the "Black Box" of Rehabilitation. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 85 (April), 678-86.
Appendix L: DeJong G, Horn SD, Conroy B, Nichols D, Healton E. Opening the Black Box of Post-stroke Rehabilitation: Stroke Rehabiitation Patients, Processes, and Outcomes. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 86 (December) 2 Suppl 2:Sxx-xx. In press.
Appendix M: Horn SD, DeJong G, Ryser DK, Veazie PH, Teraoka J (2005). Another Look at Observational Srudies in Rehabilitation Research: Going Beyond the Holy Grail of the Randomized Controlled Trial. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 86 (December) 2 Suppl 2:Xxx-xx. In press.
Appendix N: Horn SD, DeJong G,Smout RJ, Gassaway J, James R, Conroy B (2005). Stroke Rehabilitation Patients, Practices and Outcomes: Is Earlier and More Aggressive Therapy Better? Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 86 (December) 2 Suppl2:Sxx-xx. In press.