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Patient‐centred evaluation and rehabilitative care
Author(s) -
Grenville James,
Lyne Patricia
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1995.tb02649.x
Subject(s) - goal attainment scaling , health care , audit , outcome (game theory) , nursing , medline , medicine , psychology , rehabilitation , physical therapy , business , political science , mathematics , accounting , mathematical economics , law
The evaluation of health care outcomes is becoming increasingly important in today's health service The wide range of measures used to evaluate these outcomes often makes clinical audit difficult and the comparison of research papers almost impossible In this paper we will discuss some of the issues surrounding outcome measurement in rehabilitative care, examine one of the most commonly used outcome measures from this area (the Barthel Index) and consider Goal Attainment Scaling, a technique which offers both clinicians and researchers the opportunity to evaluate health care outcomes on the basis of patient‐centred practice We have identified certain methodological problems that need to be addressed if Goal Attainment Scaling is to become an acceptable measure in the area of physical rehabilitative care