Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
- Clinical vignettes illustrate the application of outcomes to clinical decision-making.
- Five clinical questions provide a framework for assessing patient outcomes:
- How confident can I be in a patient's measured value?
- What does the measured value mean?
- What is the interpretation of a measured change value?
- What is the expected terminal goal value for the outcome of interest?
- What is the ideal reassessment interval?
Synopsis
Use outcome tools and measures to evaluate the effectiveness of your treatment methods. This step-by-step guide shows you how to incorporate evidence-based methods when interpreting outcomes of physical therapy on individual patients. Following the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model, you will learn how to select the appropriate outcome measures by defining needs and barriers, identifying the steps to take when searching for a measure, and choosing critical appraisal criteria. You will also learn how to critically review studies from the literature that reports outcome measures.