Joanna F Hikaka, Amy H Y Chan, Brigette Meehan, Gabrielle L Stent, Hamish A Jamieson, Ngaire M Kerse, Gary Cheung
interRAI provides a suite of standardized, validated instruments used to assess health and psychosocial well-being, and to inform person-centered care planning. Data obtained from these standardized tools can also be used at a population level for research and to inform policy, and interRAI is currently used in more than 40 countries globally. We present a brief overview of the use of interRAI internationally within research and policy settings, and then introduce how interRAI is used within the universal public health system in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), including considerations relating to Māori, the Indigenous people of NZ...
April 18, 2024: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association