Rehabilitation Complexity in Acute Cancer Population Version 2
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Is there agreement between a standardised rehabilitation complexity scale and physiotherapist’s assessment of rehabilitation complexity in the acute cancer population? A mixed methods approach
IRAS ID
198833
Contact name
Clare Shaw
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The Royal Mardsen NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 22 days
Research summary
This is a mixed methods research to see if there is an agreement between a standardised tool; the Rehabilitation Complexity Scale and physiotherapists when measuring complexity in acute cancer care. Complexity is measured widely within rehabilitation in the NHS for many reasons. These include demonstrating the rehabilitation needs of an individual and the likely therapeutic resources required to provide adequate rehabilitation. Additionally, within the NHS, resources are allocated to rehabilitation units based on scores from these measures (Turner-Stokes, 2009) There are studies which have looked at measuring complexity in patient groups such as neurological rehabilitation and trauma (Turner-Stokes et al, 2012; Hoffman et al, 2013). Hoffman et al (2013) demonstrated in their research that using the Rehabilitation Complexity Scale Extended (RCSE) has the potential for assessing rehabilitation complexity in acute trauma care. From a preliminary literature search, there are no current studies that have investigated measuring rehabilitation complexity in the acute cancer population.
Physiotherapists will complete the RCSE on all inpatients at both the Sutton and Chelsea site of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust with 48 hours of a physiotherapy assessment. Anonymised data including length of stay and discharge destination will be collected from the electronic patient records on the inpatients who have had a RCSE completed. Physiotherapists will continue their usual practice to identify complex patients using their subjective clinical assessment during the period of 1 month of data collection. It is anticipated that the approximate number of RSCE scores collected will be 179 over this time period.
The qualitative component will involve a focus group of participating physiotherapist’s using the results obtained from the initial quantitative data collection.REC name
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