Reducing wait times for access to inpatient rehabilitation for patients with acquired brain injury: a quality improvement initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a major cause of disability. Timely access to inpatient ABI rehabilitation is associated with improved outcomes at the patient, system, and societal levels.

Problem

Wait times to access the inpatient ABI rehabilitation programme at the local regional rehabilitation centre by patients referred from community hospitals were consistently greater than provincial targets and benchmarks.

Objective

This initiative aimed to reduce the mean wait times from referral to admission by 30% (from 27 to 19 days) during the 12-month project period. The secondary aim was to concurrently achieve a reduction in the mean wait times for decisions from 9.5 to 5 days during the same period.

Methods

A non-randomised time-series design was under

SUBMITTER: Neferu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11628993 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature