Quality benchmarks for brain injury rehabilitation services.
Quality, a leading priority in health care today, must be quantified if a rehabilitation facility is to accurately evaluate its treatment effectiveness and durability. Quality can be seen as including four domains, or dimensions: accountability, professional staffing, value, and proven results. This article offers suggestions to rehabilitation case managers and discharge planners, who are in search of quality, on how to evaluate a brain injury rehabilitation program prior to referring patients to a facility.
D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D019090:Case Management; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017749:Total Quality Management