Rehabilitation includes a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services and complex continuing care for adults who experience debilitating illness or injury. CIHI facilitates the collection of standardized information on inpatient clients, mainly through the National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS). 

CIHI’s reports and indicators provide stakeholders with information to assess client outcomes, examine access to inpatient rehabilitation, and evaluate programs and services. 

This page lists rehabilitation reports, stories, infographics and release summaries.

This page lists data tables that provide information about rehabilitation.

This page lists CIHI’s rehabilitation indicators.

This page lists CIHI’s performance reporting tools that contain rehabilitation data.

The National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) contains client data collected from participating adult inpatient rehabilitation facilities and programs across Canada. These include specialized facilities as well as hospital rehabilitation units, programs and designated rehabilitation beds. The minimum data set contains clinical data on functional status based on the 18-item FIM® instrument and additional cognitive elements. Private online e-reports are updated on a quarterly basis for participating facilities and other authorized users.

Facilities collect client data on admission and discharge from the inpatient rehabilitation program. They send the data directly to CIHI on an ongoing basis for inclusion in comparative reports. There is an option to collect additional information in a follow-up assessment conducted 80 to 180 days after a client completes their rehabilitation stay. Collecting this information provides an opportunity to assess the sustainability of functional outcomes gained during rehabilitation.

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This page contains media releases, bulletins and podcast episodes about rehabilitation.

Through our Learning Centre, CIHI provides opportunities for health professionals to understand our evolving reporting systems and the application of our standards, data and analytics. We offer many courses and resources for a variety of audiences, including clinicians, assessors, data submitters and analysts, decision-makers, policy planners and researchers.

Courses and resources are available in a variety of formats, including eLearning modules, PDF and page-based documents, live and recorded web conferences, and videos.