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Impairment Specific Adjunct Modules
Impairment Specific Adjunct modules
The adjunct modules have been designed within excel workbooks and can be downloaded using the links below. Each workbook contains an information tab with instructions for recording data and a data collection sheet.
What are impairment specific adjunct modules?
Impairment specific adjunct modules are made up of a collection of additional data items that rehabilitation providers have recommend collecting to inform current clinical practise. They comprise data items specific to the impairment in question for example: Post traumatic amnesia (PTA) scores for traumatic brain injury, ASIA scores for spinal cord injury episodes. These additional data items are not routinely collected in the AROC V3 clinical dataset. You will notice that some data items appear in both the AROC V3 clinical dataset and the adjunct module, however this was required to enable linking of episodic data.
Why collect impairment specific adjunct modules?
Rehabilitation is made up of many clinical speciality areas. The overarching goal of rehabilitation remains the same, despite the speciality, that is; to maximise patient independence. It is often the tools, interventions and procedures used within each speciality that are unique. One of the key issues that arose in many of the impairment specific benchmarking workshops was the desire to collect additional impairment specific data items that will assist to inform clinical practice and create a platform for further research.
How to submit the adjunct module?
The adjunct modules are to be used in conjunction with the AROC V3 inpatient clinical dataset and should be submitted to AROC quarterly via email to aroc@uow.edu.au (same timing as the inpatient and ambulatory data sets). Please use file name specified on the information tab of the Excel workbook.
Reviewing adjunct modules
Their applicability of the additional items within each of the adjunct modules will be reviewed when sufficient data has been collected.
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