Methodologies to measure access to care post-discharge in adults with serious injury-related disability: a scoping review.

There is an urgent need to establish the use of multidimensional measures as standard practice in access-to-care research. Failure to account for the multidimensional nature of access to care limits the full realisation of access for people with serious injury-related disabilities and prevents the implementation of processes that could improve access to health, rehabilitation, and support services and enhance the quality of care for individuals with a serious injury-related disability.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONA consistently comprehensive approach to rehabilitation research will provide clearer insight into users' experiences and how to optimise their engagement with services.Multidimensional measures of access to care need to be developed, validated, and used to capture the complexity of access to rehabilitation care and what is important to users.More comprehensive evidence can strengthen consensus on the gold standard of what must be included in the measurement of access to rehabilitation care, to improve service reach and relevance.