Rehabilitation waiting time is defined as the average length in days between the time people are put on waiting lists and the time they receive their rehabilitation services. The service(s) and measure can be defined nationally. Common examples are waiting lists for hearing aids, wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, early childhood intervention programmes and other forms of community delivered rehabilitation. The selection of the service should be based on national priorities.

This may depend on country and reporting practiced, it could include: • Average waiting time in days for specific assistive product • Average waiting time for particular service, or impairment/diagnostic group

This is a continuous variable measure. The target population is patients who are on the wait list (inferred).

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Disaggregate by facility, geographical region, age, sex, socioeconomic status.

Method of measurement: Average time in days people who were put on a waiting list for a specific rehabilitation service had to wait to receive the service.

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World Health Organization (WHO). Rehabilitation indicator menu: a tool accompanying the Framework for Rehabilitation Monitoring and Evaluation (FRAME). 2019. Accessed December 2022. Available from: apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/330955. World Health Organization (WHO). Guidance on the analysis and use of routine health information systems: rehabilitation module. 2022. Accessed December 2022. Available from: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240050242.

Rehabilitation indicator menu 2019: apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/330955. Guidance on the analysis and use of routine health information systems:rehabilitation module 2022: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240050242

Rehabilitation Indicator Menu tool for Rehabilitation Monitoring and Evaluation (FRAME) to enable countries to adopt core indicators & select and adopt relevant expanded indicators. (Not Applicable)