Week 5 Flashcards
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What is an outcome measurement?
The process of data collection, analysis and
interpretation of the effectiveness and efficiency of patient treatment for the purpose of improving the
quality of clinical care and lowering health care costs
What percent of therapist surveyed use outcome measures?
48%
What are the reasons to not use outcome measures?
- Time
- Considerations in a systems movement that doesn’t provide necessary provisions for scoring
What are the common categories of outcome measurements?
- Clinical outcomes
- Process outcomes
- Patient satisfaction
- Costs
What are the concepts under the clinical outcomes of outcome measurements?
- Pathology
- Impairments
- Functional limitations
- Disability
What are the concepts under the process outcomes of outcome measurements?
Utilization of resources
What are the concepts under the patient satisfaction of outcome measurements?
- Satisfaction with caregiver
- Satisfaction with support staff
- Satisfaction with result
What are the concepts under the costs of outcome measurements?
- Direct cost of medical care
- Indirect cost
What are the different presentations from a patient that falls under the Nagi disablement model?
- Active pathology
- Impairments
- Functional limitations
- Disability
Active pathology can be shown in ____
Active pathology can be shown in Laboratory & Imaging Studies, Surgical findings
When are impairments typically found?
From Clinical examination
How do we get information regarding functional limitations and disabilities?
Observation and Patient Self
Report
What is a primary outcome measure be used for in a research report?
To help determine the sample size needed, the main power of the study, and the statistical significance of the study
Primary and secondary outcome measures should be __
Primary and secondary outcome measures should be clinically meaningful, one that patients care about and ultimately defines treatment
usefulness
What are the types of outcome measures used in patients with LE disorders?
- Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) Questionnaires, Health outcome measures (HOM), self report measures
- Pain Scales
- Goniometry
- Global Rating of Change (GROC, GRC, GRCS)
- Test - retest
What are the psychometric criteria/ the statistics behind the outcome measure and what makes it meaningful?
- Reliability
- Validity
- Clinical meaning
- Sensitivity to clinically important change
What are the 2 types of clinically important change?
- Minimal Detectable Change (MDC)
* Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID)
What is a Minimal Detectable Change (MDC)?
Change that is beyond statistical error in measurement
What is a Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID)?
Smallest noted clinically significant change
What is reliability?
Reliability is consistency over time in measurement
Why is reliability important?
Reliability is important because we want to make sure that the measure continues to asses the same items both within and between patients
What is a valid measure?
One that measures what we intend for it to measure
For an outcome measure to be clinically meaningful, it must be both ___ and ____ in the patients that we’ve chosen to use it in
For an outcome measure to be clinically meaningful, it must be both reliable and valid in the patients that we’ve chosen to use it in
What type of goal creators are MCID?
Short term goals