Assessing unmet rehabilitation needs and the feasibility of a telehealth rehabilitation consultation service for road trauma survivors recently discharged from hospital.

A high proportion of mild-moderate trauma survivors report unmet rehabilitation needs following hospital discharge. Telehealth appears to be a feasible, convenient and acceptable mode of assessing these needs.Implications for rehabilitationSurvivors of road-related injuries often experience ongoing impairments and activity limitations.Among those who don't receive rehabilitation in hospital, we found a high proportion (86.5%) had unmet rehabilitation needs after discharge.A telehealth rehabilitation service was feasible to deliver and could successfully identify unmet rehabilitation needs.The piloted telehealth intervention was viewed as acceptable, convenient and beneficial by patients.