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Participation Measure for Post-Acute Care — Clinician-Rated Outcome in Rehabilitation
The Participation Measure for Post-Acute Care (PM-PAC) is a brief, clinician-administered tool designed to measure functional participation and independence in hospitalized rehabilitation patients across self-care, mobility, cognition, and social domains. Developed by Wang, Hart, Stratford, and Mioduski, PM-PAC is widely used in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) and skilled nursing facilities (SNF) to track progress, predict discharge outcomes, and inform therapy intensity planning.
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- Wang, Y. C., Hart, D. L., Stratford, P. W., & Mioduski, J. E. (2012). Baseline dependency, not diagnosis, drives therapy intensity and discharge outcome after inpatient rehabilitation. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 21(6), 431–437. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2010.08.004 ↗
- Gandy, S., Wang, Y. C., Schauder, K., Hart, D. L., Mioduski, J. E., & Meek, M. (2014). Utility of the Participation Measure for Post-Acute Care (PM-PAC) in predicting rehabilitation outcomes. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 95(12), 2387–2392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2014.07.010 ↗