Locations

• Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Education & Training

Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Ph.D., 2003

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

MS, 1992

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

BSN, 1986

Fellowships

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Post Doctoral, 2005

Recent or Important Publications

Deutsch A, Braun S, Granger C. The Functional Independence Measure and the Functional Independence Measure for Children: ten years of development. Critical Reviews of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1996;8(4):267-281.

Deutsch A, Braun S, Granger CV. The Functional Independence Measure. Journal of Rehabilitation Outcomes Measurement 1996;1(2):67-71.

Granger CV, Deutsch A, Linn R. Rasch analysis of the FIM mastery test. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1998;79:52-57.

Hamilton BB, Deutsch A, Russell C, Fiedler RC, Granger CV. Relation of disability costs to function: spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1999;80:385-391.

Deutsch A. Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Began January 1, 2002. Rehabilitation Nursing Journal 2002;27(1):4,7.

Deutsch A, Fiedler RC, Granger CV, Russell CF. The Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation Report of Patients Discharged from Comprehensive Medical Rehabilitation Programs in 1999. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2002;81:133-142.

Deutsch A, Fiedler RC, Iwanenko W, Granger CV, Russell CF. The Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation Report of Patients Discharged from Subacute Rehabilitation Programs in 1999. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,2003;82:703-711.

Deutsch A, Granger CV, Fiedler RC, DeJong G, Kane RL, Ottenbacher KJ, Heinemann AW, Naughton JP, Trevisan M. Outcomes and reimbursement of inpatient rehabilitation facilities and subacute rehabilitation programs for Medicare beneficiaries with hip fracture. Medical Care 43, 892-901, 2005.

Deutsch A, Dean-Baar S. Summary of the GAO Report: Medicare – More Specific Criteria Needed to Classify Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. Rehabilitation Nursing 2005;30:219-222.

Deutsch A, Granger CV, Heinemann AW, Fiedler RC, DeJong G, Kane RL, Ottenbacher KJ, Naughton JP, Trevisan M. Post-stroke rehabilitation: Outcomes and reimbursement of inpatient rehabilitation facilities and subacute rehabilitation programs. Stroke 2006; 1477-1482.

Deutsch A, Dean-Baar S. Economics and health policy in rehabilitation.
In: Rehabilitation Nurses' Foundation, editor. The Specialty Practice of Rehabilitation Nursing: A Core Curriculum, 5th edition. 2007.

Granger CV, Deutsch A, Russell C, Black T, Ottenbacher KJ. Modifications to the FIMTM instrument under the inpatient rehabilitation prospective payment system. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2007;86:883-892.

Gage B, Stineman M, Deutsch A, Mallinson T, Heinemann A, Bernard S, Constantine R. Perspectives on the State-of-the-Science in Rehabilitation Medicine and Its Implications for Medicare Postacute Care Policies. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2007;88:1737-9.

Ottenbacher KJ, Kuo Y, Ostir GV, Campbell J, Deutsch A, Granger CV.Racial and Ethnic Differences in Post-acute Rehabilitation Outcomes following Stroke in the U.S. Stroke 2008;39:1514-1519.

Ehrlich-Jones L, O'Dwyer L, Stevens K, Deutsch A. Searching the Literature for Evidence. Rehabilitation Nursing Journal 2008;33:163-169.

Deutsch A, Granger CV, Russell C, Heinemann AW, Ottenbacher KJ. Apparent Changes in IRF Outcomes Due to a Change in the Definition of Program Interruption. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008;89:2274-2277.

Magasi S, Durkin E, Wolf M, Deutsch A. Consumers' Use and Understanding of Quality Information: A Health Literacy Perspective. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2009;90:206-212.

Graham, JE, Ripsin CM, Deutsch A, Kuo YF, Markello S, Granger CV, Ottenbacher KJ. Relationship between diabetes codes that affect Medicare reimbursement (tier comorbidities) and outcomes in stroke rehabilitation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, in press.