COVER STORY
Meaningful
MEASURES O&P FACILITIES STEP UP THEIR
DATA COLLECTION EFFORTS TO
IMPROVE PATIENT CARE AND DEMONSTRATE VALUE By CHRISTINE UMBRELL
NEED TO KNOW • In a movement toward evidence-based practice, several O&P facilities have formalized their policies and procedures regarding the collection and use of outcomes measurements. • Facilities are capturing both performance-based and patient-reported measurements and storing data in patients’ charts, involving both clinicians and patients in the process. • Some patient-care facilities are leveraging data to inform clinical decision making, share progress with patients, and provide evidence of the value of O&P intervention to payors. • Lower-limb prosthetic patients remain the current focus of outcome measures at most facilities, but some clinicians have developed upper-limb measures, and others are planning to capture lower-limb orthotic outcomes in the near future.
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