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 is useful, timely to complete and a good indication of caseload and is part of the minimum dataset for neurological units.
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
- M: Medical needs 0-3
- T: Therapy needs 0-8
- 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
- M: Medical needs 0-4
- T: Therapy needs 0-8
- E: Equipment 0-2
The RCS-ET (Version 13 Trauma) is a 25 point measure:
- M: Medical needs 0-6
- C: Basic care needs or R: Risk 0-4
- N: Special nursing needs 0-4
- T: Therapy needs 0-8
- E: Equipment 0-3
The RCS-EA (Version 13 Acute) is a 25 point measure:
- M: Medical needs 0-6
- C: Basic care needs or R: Risk 0-4
- N: Special nursing needs 0-4
- T: Therapy needs 0-8
- E: Equipment 0-3
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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.