Selecting patient-based outcome measures

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Athletic Therapy Today

Abstract

Patient-based outcome measures are intended to enhance patient evaluation and injury management by providing patient-centered information regarding function, disability, and overall quality of life. Clinicians should avoid indiscriminate use of patient-based outcome scales by first determining the quality of the instrument on the basis of the criteria presented. Improperly selected patient-based outcome measures may fail to yield appropriate information for treatment planning, clinical decision making, and development of rehabilitation goals. Unfortunately there is no scale that ideally satisfies all instrument criteria. Therefore, clinicians must consider the relative advantages and limitations of various outcome measures and then select the instrument that best fulfills the purpose of outcome data collection. © 2007 Human Kinetics.

First Page

12

Last Page

15

DOI

10.1123/att.12.6.12

Publication Date

1-1-2007

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