Original Title: Hjerneskaderehabilitering – en medicinsk teknologivurdering; bilagsdel 1

Authors' objectives: This report is based on systematic, critical and comprehensive health technology assessment. The purpose is to provide professional advice on how brain injury rehabilitation in Denmark can be organized across the municipalities, administrative regions and the state (administrative boundaries) and across professions (multidisciplinary) such that the rehabilitation services are targeted appropriately, of uniform high quality and coherent for the people involved. The assessment includes the following analyses.Technology 1 – assessing the effects of rehabilitation interventions systematically reviews the quantitative effects of the interventions, including multidisciplinary, physical, cognitive, emotional, personality, communication and social interventions. Technology 2 – five hypotheses on factors promoting positive results in brain injury rehabilitation systematically reviews the evidence on: client-centered approaches; working with objectives; strategies for learning; transferring knowledge and skills.The analysis patients and relatives focuses on how people with brain injury and their relatives (mainly spouses) experience and cope with changes in their life situation and rehabilitation services and their experience of being reintegrated into social life. The analysis of organization reviews the literature based on international experience with brain injury rehabilitation and investigates the barriers to and potential for achieving coherent programmes across and within Denmark's administrative regions and municipalities. The economic analysis investigates the total costs associated with rehabilitating people with acquired brain injury, the average economic costs to society of various types of rehabilitation programmes and the economic benefits.This report is based on systematic, critical and comprehensive health technology assessment. The purpose is to provide professional advice on how brain injury rehabilitation in Denmark can be organized across the municipalities, administrative regions and the state (administrative boundaries) and across professions (multidisciplinary) such that the rehabilitation services are targeted appropriately, of uniform high quality and coherent for the people involved. The assessment includes the following analyses.Technology 1 – assessing the effects of rehabilitation interventions systematically reviews the quantitative effects of the interventions, including multidisciplinary, physical, cognitive, emotional, personality, communication and social interventions. Technology 2 – five hypotheses on factors promoting positive results in brain injury rehabilitation systematically reviews the evidence on: client-centered approaches; working with objectives; strategies for learning; transferring knowledge and skills.The analysis patients and relatives focuses on how people with brain injury and their relatives (mainly spouses) experience and cope with changes in their life situation and rehabilitation services and their experience of being reintegrated into social life. The analysis of organization reviews the literature based on international experience with brain injury rehabilitation and investigates the barriers to and potential for achieving coherent programmes across and within Denmark's administrative regions and municipalities. The economic analysis investigates the total costs associated with rehabilitating people with acquired brain injury, the average economic costs to society of various types of rehabilitation programmes and the economic benefits.

Project Status: Completed

Year Published: 2011

URL for published report: https://www.sst.dk/da/Udgivelser/2011/Hjerneskaderehabilitering---en-medicinsk-teknologivurdering

English language abstract: An English language summary is available

Publication Type: Not Assigned

Country: Denmark

Organisation Name: Danish Centre for Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment

Contact Address: National Board of Health, PO Box 1881, Islands Brygge 67, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. Tel: 45 72 22 74 48; Fax: 45 72 22 74 07/67

Contact Name: dacehta@sst.dk

Contact Email: dacehta@sst.dk

Copyright: Danish Centre for Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA)