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In February 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its historic
"Rehabilitation 2030:
A Call for Action". Scaling up rehabilitation in health
systems requires concerted action across all 6 components of WHO's Health Systems
Framework. For rehabilitation, information about functioning is essential, as it
is required for effective rehabilitation at all levels of the health system. What
is missing is a countrywide demonstration project involving the implementation of
a clinical quality management system for the continuous improvement of
rehabilitation, both at the level of clinical care for individual patients and at
the level of rehabilitation service provision. Consequently, the Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Malaya and University Malaya Medical
Centre, together with the Cheras Rehabilitation Hospital of the Ministry of
Health, and the Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) Rehabilitation Centre in
Malacca, Malaysia, initiated a project to develop a Malaysian-wide clinical
quality management system for rehabilitation (CQM-R Malaysia). The objective of
this paper is to describe CQM-R Malaysia. First, a conceptual description of a
CQM-R based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and
Health (ICF) is set out. The methods, results and conclusions of a situation
analysis conducted in January 2017 are then reported. Finally, the building
blocks and implementation action plan developed for CQM-R Malaysia are presented.

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