RADAR / Evidence
Evidence and approach

Measured, principled, and coordinated.

RADAR is built on objective measurement, the principles of the Clinical Framework, and GP coordinated capacity. Here is the thinking, in plain terms.

Objective measurement

The Functional Progress Ratio

The Functional Progress Ratio is a single ratio showing the direction and rate of a worker's functional recovery. It is descriptive, not a forecast, and it is read by trajectory: climbing, slowing, or plateaued.

It sits alongside validated measures that treating teams already use, including the OMPQ, the PSEQ and the DASS21, so the picture is grounded in established tools rather than a black box.

A PACT physiotherapist guiding an injured worker through a functional capacity assessment
How it is grounded

Principled and coordinated

Aligned to the Clinical Framework

RADAR works to the principles of the Clinical Framework for the delivery of health services, the same principles treating providers already work to.

Capacity via the GP

RADAR assists the treating providers, and the GP signs off on capacity. Decisions stay properly coordinated.

Visibility and completion

What you cannot measure, you cannot progress. Objective visibility is what helps a complex claim keep moving toward recovery.

Why good work and active rehabilitation

Recovery is active, not passive

RADAR is built around two well established ideas in injury management: that good work is generally good for health and recovery, and that active, exercise led rehabilitation supports both physical and psychological recovery. On the physical arm that means steering toward an Exercise Physiology transition. On the psychological arm it means using physical exercise as an evidence based and underused adjunct, within physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology scope.

A note on figures

We deliberately do not publish outcome statistics, success rates or recovery times here. When we cite a figure, it will be one we can stand behind and attribute. For now, the case for RADAR is the method: objective measurement, the team already on the claim, and a clear path to completion.

Let's complete what's already been started.

Refer a complex or chronic claim into RADAR and give the team already on it the visibility and direction to see it through to recovery.

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