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Outcome Measurementand Management:
First Steps for the Practicing Clinician
Sandra L. Kaplan,
PT, PhD
 Associate Professor and Assistant Director,Doctoral Programs in Physical TherapyMember Stuart D. Cook MD Master Educators GuildUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New JerseyNewark, New Jersey
 
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Preface
vii
This book has two main goals:
GOAL 1: TO INTRODUCE READERS TO THE TERMINOLOGY AND PROCESSES OF OUTCOMEMEASUREMENT
This first goal may seem straightforward enough. At the time I began thisproject (mid-1990s), there were very few books that addressed outcomemeasurement in rehabilitation. In fact, most of the literature available was,and continues to be, in the domains of medicine, nursing, and quality assur-ance. Pulling definitions together, finding threads to tie processes together,and finding links to the educational and experiential backgrounds of phys-ical therapists have and continue to be an iterative process of new discov-ery, reorganization, and refinement.This book does not purport to be an exhaustive review of the literature.Rather, it uses literature to credit ideas, provide examples, and demonstratethe range of strategies available to address outcome measurement processes.I have tried to pick examples from the literature that illustrate ideas and thatalso represent the wide variety of practice venues of physical therapists.Many of the ideas and suggestions provided in this book are my own,having evolved from conducting outcome studies and teaching courses onoutcome measurement. I have had the privilege of teaching these courses toprofessional and post-professional physical therapy students. Many expla-nations that have been included are there because students needed “dots”to be explained or “dots” to be connected. I am grateful to the many stu-dents who have asked questions and shared their confusions, as they havehelped to ground the application of information in practical terms.I have also learned that while the academic community is immersed insuch frameworks and terminology as
disablement models
,
evidence-based practice
, and
measurable outcomes,
there are many practicing clinicians whohave not applied or observed these frameworks or terms in their daily clin-ical practice. Recognizing the categories of a disablement model appears tobe a different skill than categorizing examination measures according tothat model or using the model to create hypotheses about patient care.Consequently, I have included chapters about service delivery models, dis-ablement models, and statistics. Academic programs teach this content ingreater depth, so current students and recent graduates may not need thesechapters. They have been included to help those practicing clinicians whohave not had the same academic exposure and to enable clinicians fromother professions to use that information.
GOAL 2: TO PROVIDE CLINICIANS WITH STRATEGIESFOR USING THEIR OWN DOCUMENTATION TO EVALUATE THEIR PRACTICE PATTERNS OREFFECTIVENESS RETROSPECTIVELY 
This second goal was the harder of the two to address, and I am hopeful thatPart 2 of this book successfully delivers on the goal. Outcome measure-
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