Table 4 Uses of Information among PTs who used Standard Outcome Measures (SOMs) (n = 111)
Health status Questionnaires used for | Yes Routinely | Yes Sometime | No | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Percent | N | Percent | N | Percent | |
“Answering clinical questions through a traditional research approach”. | 45 | 40.5 | 62 | 55.9 | 4 | 3.6 |
“Quality improvement / assurance activities”. | 59 | 53.2 | 48 | 43.2 | 4 | 3.6 |
“Determining the case mix (complexity) of patients”. | 34 | 30.6 | 66 | 59.5 | 11 | 9.9 |
“Comparing performance across therapists in terms of average patient outcomes”. | 49 | 44.1 | 50 | 45.1 | 12 | 10.8 |
“Comparing one clinic’s performance to that of other clinics”. | 41 | 36.9 | 49 | 44.1 | 21 | 18.9 |
“Comparing average outcomes of patients with different conditions within a practice”. | 45 | 40.5 | 58 | 52.3 | 8 | 7.2 |
“Examining the average change in patients’ health status over their episodes of care to determine a practice’s effectiveness”. | 62 | 55.9 | 45 | 40.5 | 4 | 3.6 |
“Examining the average change in patients’ health status over their episodes of care to determine individual therapists’ effectiveness”. | 55 | 49.5 | 48 | 43.2 | 8 | 7.2 |
“Examining and documenting the status, progress, and/or outcomes of individual patients by individual therapists”. | 63 | 56.8 | 48 | 43.2 | 0 | 0 |
“Communicating with other health care providers and referral sources”. | 59 | 53.2 | 44 | 39.6 | 8 | 7.20 |