Outcome Measures
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Brenda is a physical therapist looking to utilize the correct outcome measure to assess a patient's improvements and current ability related to ADL's.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining the correct and MOST appropriate outcome measure to utilize with a patient who has a CVA.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files, two mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT Clinical Files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT |
| 0:12.3 | PrEPP Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching |
| 0:17.3 | Program. And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to |
| 0:27.7 | get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our therapist, Brenda. And Brenda is |
| 0:33.6 | assessing a patient with a recent CVA. The therapist is looking to utilize an outcome measure |
| 0:41.0 | to track improvement and to determine the patient's current ability to perform activities of daily |
| 0:48.2 | living, including feeding bowel and bladder continents. Which of the following measures is the most appropriate? So we have |
| 0:57.0 | A, the short form, 36, B, stroke rehabilitation assessment of movement. C is Barthal Index. And D is the |
| 1:08.0 | incontinence quality of life instrument. All right. So for this specific case, |
| 1:14.4 | we got to go ahead, get in here, knock this down. All right. And so first of all, we have our |
| 1:21.5 | therapist, Brenda, and Brenda is assessing a patient with a recent CVA. Okay. So that's pretty |
| 1:26.3 | straightforward. Not a lot of |
| 1:28.0 | craziness going on there. Let's go to the next sentence. It says the therapist is looking to utilize |
| 1:33.3 | an outcome measure to track improvement and to determine the patient's current ability to perform |
| 1:41.0 | ADLs. All right. So that's important because we need to slow up for a moment and ask ourselves, well, what does |
| 1:46.8 | that really mean to us as far as this whole outcome measure to track improvement and |
| 1:52.4 | determine the patient's current ability to perform these ADLs? |
| 1:57.1 | What does that mean to us? |
| 1:58.8 | And you should be thinking, well, this is related to a functional |
| 2:02.9 | outcome measure that I would be trying to utilize here. I need to use a functional outcome measure |
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