The Community Rehabilitation Assessment: patient and clinician-reported outcomes in ambulatory rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The interRAI Community Rehabilitation Assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive health assessment designed to collect essential health and function information for rehabilitation care planning, benchmarking, and evaluation of clinic and home-based programs. A portion of the CRA is completed through patient self-report. The objective of this study was to demonstrate how the CRA can be used to describe the baseline clinical characteristics of patients participating in ambulatory rehabilitation programs and measure change across numerous domains of function, health, and wellbeing over time.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting and participants

In total, 709 patients were assessed with the CRA across 25 ambulatory clinics in Ontario, Canada between January 1st, 2018, to Dece

SUBMITTER: Turcotte LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10239873 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature