[extract] AROC • Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre • National rehabilitation clinical registry - Australian and New Zealand • Established and manages national benchmarking system whose objective is to improve clinical rehabilitation outcomes for patients • Promotes the importance of rehabilitation in the continuum of care • Almost 100% coverage inpatient rehab units (232 units in Aus, 40 in NZ) • AROC receives data describing more than 100,000 episodes of rehab per year
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Citation
F. Simmonds & T. Stevermuer "Using AROC data to compare outcomes for older people in public and private rehabilitation units", AFRM 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide Hilton, 9-13 Sep 2014, (2014) http://www.afrmconference.org/images/Presentations/Thursday/Frances_Simmonds.pdf