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Provincial Initiative to Describe and Analyze Scope and Nature of ABI Services
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The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) has called for a systems analysis of health and community services for acquired brain injury (ABI) in Ontario that focuses on what is happening within the system and the flow of services. A research team (see below) has been appointed to conduct the analysis.
The project will describe and analyze the:
- Scope and nature of ABI services across the continuum of service across the lifespan of individuals living with acquired brain injury.
- Flow of services across and between LHINs, specifically as it relates to:
- Services being provided including capacity and description of services that includes exclusion criteria
- Distribution of services
- Utilization of services, including access and waits for services
- Coordination of services including linkages, partnerships, relationships, associations
- Gaps in services
- Urban/rural differences
- Wait lists and time to access services.
- Partnerships, linkages, associations and relationships that exist for the delivery of ABI services.
- Opportunities where individuals could move to an alternate level of care if an ALC in the community existed and what that would look like.
The study will involve analysis of existing information about what is already known, consultations with key stakeholders, an electronic survey, follow up interviews with a cross section of stakeholders and focus groups.
Results of the study are intended to inform and enable ONF, planners, policy makers, advocacy groups and the ABI community, on a provincial level, to identify frameworks that might be helpful for Ontario to address ABI as a complex chronic disorder for adults, children and youth.
The analysis is being conducted beginning April 2009 with a targeted completion date of March 2010.
The project team includes: Dr. Susan Jaglal, Principal Investigator, Senior Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto; Charissa Levy, Executive Director, Toronto ABI Network; Daria Parsons, Consultant with particular expertise and experience in data access and analysis; Rika Vander Laan, Consultant with particular expertise and experience in ABI systems; and Sarah Munce, Project Coordinator.
For further information please contact Sarah Munce, Project Coordinator, at sarah.munce@utoronto.ca.
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