Rehabilitation Bed Density

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Rehabilitation Care
Country
World Health Organization
Publishing Organisation
World Health Organization (WHO): Rehabilitation Indicator Menu
Type of Quality Indicator
Structure
IOM Quality Dimension
Equity
Domain
Resources

Defining Attributes

Definition

The total number of dedicated rehabilitation hospital beds per 10 000 population. Usually these beds are in rehabilitation hospitals, centres units and wards, and used for people with different kinds of underlying health conditions requiring more intensive and specialised rehabilitation care, including people requiring intensive rehabilitation following a mental health condition. This excludes intensive rehabilitation for clients in other wards (e.g. orthopaedic, paediatric or neurology wards) and intensive rehabilitation day programmes (see Expanded indicator 15).

Numerator

Total number of dedicated rehabilitation hospital beds.

Denominator

Total population (based on estimates from the World Bank or from the national office for statistics)

Exclusions

None

Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments

None

Stratifications

Numerator and denominator, disaggregation by geographic region (subnational).

Collection and Reporting Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods

Data from ministry of health

Frequency of Data Collection
Annually
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
365
Reporting Methods

Routine Health Information System (RHIS)

Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source

World Health Organization (WHO). Rehabilitation indicator menu. 2nd edition. 2023. Accessed September 2023. Available from: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240076440

Technical Specifications

Rehabilitation indicator menu 2023 2nd edition: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240076440

Link to Measurement Tools

Routine Health Information Systems (WHO standard facility indicator "Rehabilitation bed density" )

Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
02 December 2025