Rehabilitation Outcome Measures
Rehabilitation Outcome Measures
The multi-disciplinary team meet weekly to discuss any emerging issues and to discuss and problem solve ways to improve the programmes where needed.
The team communicates regularly with all parties formally and informally, sometimes, just making a call to say the resident has had a good experience today. For us it’s not just about working towards the next review, every day counts.
What does ‘Co-ordinated Interdisciplinary Intervention’ look like?
All the current standards for brain injury rehabilitation call for ‘co-ordinated interdisciplinary intervention’, we have a view about what that means to us at The Oakleaf Group.
The Oakleaf Group employs a full team of specialist clinical staff and therapists. By organising our team in this way we can always be sure that the most appropriate member of the team is available to engage in an activity with a resident during the sessional day. We can guarantee that the programme designed for each person is flexible and responsive in order to support their progression and recovery but offers the right degree of structure and routine to aid orientation.
Review Meetings
Review meetings are held at regular intervals to analyse progress in recovery. These meetings are attended by members of the therapy team who have taken time to get to know the resident through working directly with them and can answer any questions you have.
Oakleaf recognise that this can be an incredibly difficult, stressful and unsettling time for families so we employ a full-time Family Liaison Worker whose role is to provide information, support and reassurance to family members.
Brain injury is a multi-faceted disability which requires a specialist, interdisciplinary approach, including assessment of both health care and social care needs in the context of the person’s life before their brain injury, involving their family and supporters and considering the person’s future life options. The Oakleaf team take their time to really get to know people, to understand them and to engage in a meaningful and honest way.
Outcome Measures
As a commissioner, you will be looking for evidence to illustrate the impact of the rehabilitation service you have placed your client with, ways in which costs can be reduced over time and information to help you to secure funds.
There is strong, research-based evidence to show that rehabilitation in specialist settings for people with brain injury is effective and provides value for money in terms of reducing length of stay in hospital and reducing the costs of long term care.
Continued co-ordinated multidisciplinary rehabilitation in the community improves long-term outcomes and can help reduce hospital readmissions.
To help you to evidence the outcomes from our services, we will provide you with:
- A comprehensive MDT report at each review meeting (where appropriate linked to the DST headings).
- Full attendance at the review meetings by the MDT members to discuss the report.
- Well planned, goal-orientated feedback from a co-ordinated interdisciplinary team approach to the individual rehabilitation programme.
- The Oakleaf Risk Assessment developed by the Oakleaf interdisciplinary team.
- Specific goal orientated assessment outcomes that are discipline specific.
- The Overt Aggression Scale – Modified for Neurorehabilitation (OASMNR).
- St Andrews Sexual Behaviour Assessment (SASBA).
- St Andrews Swansea
- Neurobehavioural Outcome Scale (SASNOS).
- Family Liaison Worker whose role it is to engage with and support family members and carers.
- Discharge planning soon after admission to ensure that all external agencies are engaged to facilitate a safe and successful discharge.