Development of employment indicators to advance the quality of spinal cord injury rehabilitation care: SCI-High Project

This study focuses on creating ways to measure how well rehabilitation programs help people with spinal cord injuries or diseases (SCI/D) get back to work. The goal is to ensure rehabilitation professionals provide opportunities to explore returning to work within the first 18 months after rehab admission. By improving employment rates, the hope is to enhance the wellbeing, health, and longevity of individuals with SCI/D.

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  The structure indicator is the proportion of SCI/D rehabilitation programs with an employment resource center.
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  The process indicator is the proportion of SCI/D rehabilitation inpatients who receive an employment assessment during inpatient rehabilitation.
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  The intermediary and final outcome measures are the Readiness for Return-to-Work Scale (RRTW) and Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI).