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AROC Annual Report and Benchmarks
Annual Report: State of Rehabilitation
The Annual AROC Report: the State of Rehabilitation
aims to provide a summary of practice and outcomes in rehabilitation in any given year. It identifies and comments
on key trends and issues in rehabilitation. The first of these
reports was published in 2007 and describes the 2005 year. Currently reports are available for Australian data only. Reports will be available for New Zealand data from 2010 describing the 2009 year.
The most recent Australian report was published in 2009 and describes the 2007 year. These articles are available here:
LOS and FIM change benchmarks
National and sector benchmarks by impairment and AN-SNAP class are published every calendar and financial year for Australian data. The first benchmarks for New Zealand data have been published this financial year (2008/2009)
* These are the first set of benchmarks published by AROC which have been calculated using revised outcome definitions (see below). This has impacted the benchmarks such that compared to the Calendar Year 2009 Benchmarks:
- Stroke, Brain Injury, Neurological, Spinal Cord Injury, Amputee and Multi-Trauma LOS benchmarks have generally increased
- Stroke, Brain Injury, Neurological, Spinal Cord Injury, Amputee and Multi-Trauma FIM Change benchmarks have generally also increased
In some other instances benchmarks have also changed, but the changes above are the most significant.
Revised Definitions: Change in exclusions for outcome data
Previously many the length of stay (LOS) benchmark calculation excluded episodes with a LOS greater than 90 days. This filter has now been removed. From now on episodes with a LOS greater than 90 days are now also included in the episodes from which the LOS benchmarks are calculated.
Previously end of episode outcome measures such as LOS and FIM change only excluded episodes when there was a FIM discharge score of 18 or when the patient died. From now on end of episode outcome measures will be based solely on episodes of rehabilitation that have been identified as “complete”.
The definition of a complete episode is an episode where:
- the mode of episode end was either 1 (discharged to usual accommodation) or 2 discharged to interim accommodation) AND total FIM score at episode end was greater than 18, or
- the mode of episode end was 7 (change of care type within sub-acute/non-acute care) AND length of stay greater than 6 days.
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