Patient Management Model Flashcards
an ongoing, iterative process that focuses on the evolving needs of each individual.
PATIENT & CLIENT MANAGEMENT
Application of the PATIENT & CLIENT MANAGEMENT model
to rehabilitate, habilitate, maintain health or function, prevent functional decline, and, in healthy individuals, enhance performance.
The process of patient management has five basic components.
A comprehensive EXAMINATION
EVALUATION of data collected
Determination of DIAGNOSIS based on impairments, functional limitations, and disability
Establishment of a PROGNOSIS and plan of care based on patient-oriented goals
Implementation of appropriate INTERVENTION.
TLDR; collection of data
EXAMINATION
Systematic process by which a therapist obtains information about a patient’s problems and his or her reasons for seeking physical therapy services
EXAMINATION
Means by which baseline measurements of current impairments, functional limitations, and abilities are established as a reference point for which therapeutic interventions can be measured and documented.
EXAMINATION
T or F
EXAMINATION B4 INITIAL INTERVENTION IS A MUST
TRUE
DISTINCT ELEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION (3)
health history
systems review
tests and measures
Overview of current & past information about a patient’s present condition, general health, & why patient sought physical therapy services.
HISTORY
In history taking, Sources of information are?
✓ Self-report health history questionnaires
✓ Interviews
✓ Review of Medical Record
✓ Reports from referral source
Report involving the overall physical and emotional wellbeing of the patient
Narrow down factors which contribute to the patient’s current condition
SYSTEMS REVIEW
Brief relevant screening of the body systems.
Systems typically screened are; cardiovascular, pulmonary, integumentary, musculoskeletal, and neuromuscular.
SYSTEMS REVIEW
General overview of a patient’s cognition, communication, and social/emotional responses. o Anatomical & Physiological
Systems review
Provides in-depth information about impairments, functional limitations, & disabilities.
SPECIFIC TESTS & MEASURES
Enables a therapist to support or refute the working hypotheses formulated while taking the patient’s health history & performing the systems review.
SPECIFIC TESTS & MEASURES
Functional Outcome Measures?
Reflect the impact of a patient’s pathological condition to and resulting impairments on functional abilities and health-related quality of life.
Measure patient’s perception of their disability due to impairment
process or a category.
essential element of patient management because it directs the physical therapy prognosis (including the plan of care) and interventions
DIAGNOSIS
T or F
Diagnosis in the physical therapy patient management model the same as the term clinical classification of diagnosis
FASLE
Diagnosis in the physical therapy patient management model is synonymous with the term clinical classification and is not to be confused with the term medical diagnosis.
the identification of a patient’s pathology or disease by its signs, symptoms, and data collected from tests ordered by the physician.
Medical Diganosis
T or F
Diagnosis established by a nurse is related to the primary dysfunction toward which the physical therapist directs treatment.
FASLE
Diagnosis established by a physical therapist is related to the primary dysfunction toward which the physical therapist directs treatment.
