- Title
- Analysing and interpreting outcomes data to support evidence-based practice using the example of AusTOMs-OT
- Creator
- Unsworth, Carolyn
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/181515
- Identifier
- vital:15960
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022617722480
- Identifier
- ISBN:0308-0226 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Statement of context: Occupational therapists working with clients who have neurological impairments routinely collect outcomes data. However, data cannot inform practice unless it is routinely reviewed. The aim of this paper was to show how outcomes data collected on the Australian Therapy Outcome Measures – Occupational Therapy scale were analysed and interpreted. Although the example pertains to clients with neurological problems, the approach can be applied to all areas of practice. Critical reflection on practice: When outcomes data are routinely analysed and findings reviewed, occupational therapists have an increased understanding of practice strengths and limitations. Implications for practice: Incorporating analysis and interpretation of outcomes data for clients with neurological problems into practice contributes evidence to support therapy and ensures clinicians retain control of their data. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Relation
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 80, no. 10 (2017), p. 631-637
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ The Author(s) 201
- Subject
- 4201 Allied Health and Rehabilitation Science; Evidence-based practice; Outcome measures; Patient outcome assessment
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The Australian Therapy Outcome Measures (AusTOMs) project was funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing in 2001. The AusTOMs were developed in Australia from the Therapy Outcome Measure, originated by Professor Pam Enderby and Dr Alex John, University of Sheffield, and Dr Brian Petheram, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol (United Kingdom) and the ICF (WHO). Professor Pam Enderby assisted the research team at La Trobe University in the application to the Commonwealth to support this project. Both Professor Enderby and Dr Alexandra John from Sheffield University, United Kingdom, were associate researchers to this project, providing the research team with advice, discussion and support in this development of the AusTOMs.
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