RCS-E - Rehabilitation Complexity Scale Extended
The Rehabilitation Complexity Scale Extended (RCS-E) provides a simple overall measure of Care, Nursing, Therapy, Medical and Equipment needs, and is designed to offer crude banding of complexity.
The RCS-E (version 12) is a 20 point measure:
- C: Basic care needs or R: Risk 0-4
- N: Special nursing needs 0-3
- T: Therapy hours 0-8
- M: Medical environment 0-3
- E: Equipment 0-2
The RCS-E (version 13) is a 22 point measure:
- C: Basic care needs or R: Risk 0-4
- N: Special nursing needs 0-4
- T: Therapy hours 0-8
- M: Medical environment 0-4
- Equipment 0-2
The RCS-E is useful, timely to complete and a good indication of caseload and is part of the minimum dataset for neurological units.
To obtain the clinical tool, please contact the UKROC team.
Training
For information regarding the next RCS, Nursing & Therapy Dependency (Outcome Measures) Training Day please contact Elica Ming-Brown.
Publications
- Turner-Stokes, L., Disler, R. and Williams, H. (2007), The Rehabilitation Complexity Scale: a simple, practical tool to identify 'complex specialised' services in neurological rehabilitation (PDF, 342kb), Clinical Medicine, 7, 593-9
- Turner-Stokes, L., Scott, H., Williams, H. and Siegert, R. (2012), The Rehabilitation Complexity Scale--extended version: detection of patients with highly complex needs (PDF, 964kb), Disability Rehabilitation, 34, 715-20.
- Turner-Stokes, L., Williams, H. and Siegert, R. J. (2010), The Rehabilitation Complexity Scale version 2: a clinimetric evaluation in patients with severe complex neurodisability (PDF, 175kb), J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 81, 146-53.