Utilization of Rehabilitation Services After Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Assessment in the United States
Authors' conclusion
Rehabilitation utilization was infrequent overall, occurring nearly 2 years after the initial IIM ICD code.
Study context
- Population
- US patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) in the TriNetX dataset (≥2 IIM ICD-9/10 codes 1–12 months apart, ≥1 year of preceding data)29.4% male
- Participants
- 22,434 patients
- Outcome
- Utilization and timing of rehabilitation services (CPT code for PT, OT and SLP) after first IIM ICD code
Methodological detailsrecurrent event modeling, adjusted for potential confounders
- Recurrent event modeling
- Adjusted for potential confounders
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
≥1 rehabilitation evaluation after first IIM ICD code · average of 10 years' follow-up
Physical therapy (PT) evaluation
20.1%
Occupational therapy (OT) evaluation
5.3%
Speech language pathology (SLP) evaluation
3.7%
Mean time to rehabilitation services use after first IIM code
just under 2 years
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Factors associated with rehabilitation service use
- Older age and prior use of the respective rehabilitation service associated with higher use across all categories
- DM ICD group had significantly lower PT and OT use vs PM ICD group
Original publication
Utilization of Rehabilitation Services After Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Assessment in the United States. J Rheumatol. Published 15 August 2025. doi:10.
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