Outcome measurements can frequently cross multiple domains of care and may serve as surrogate outcome measurements if traditional measures are unavailable. The use of the patientspecific functional scale to measure. The patientspecific functional scale psfs was designed to provide clinicians with a valid, reliable, responsive, and efficient outcome measure that would be. Manual physical therapy, cervical traction, and strengthening exercises in. Scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia sara 1 gait proband is asked 1 to walk at a safe distance parallel to a wall including a halfturn turn around to face the opposite direction of gait and. The listed denominator criteria are used to identify the intended patient population.
Please identify at least three important activities that you are unable to do or have difficulty doing as a result of your current. Neck disability index this questionnaire has been designed to give us information as to how your neck pain has affected your ability to manage in everyday life. The lefs can be used by clinicians as a measure of patients initial. Penn spasm frequency scale psfs and spasm severity scale total articles. Assessing disability and change on individual patients. A comparison of correlation coefficients determined good convergent validity of the patient specific functional scale psfs with global rating of change scale grc, better than with. This document will show you how to use the psfs on physitrack to best effect. This useful questionnaire can be used to quantify activity limitation and measure functional outcome for patients with any orthopaedic condition. Using outcome measures in the clinic jenniferharwoodbscpt,fcampt andandrewwhitebpe,bscpt,fcampt outcome measures are a. The validity, reliability and minimal clinically important. The patientspecific functional scale psfs is a selfreported, patient. The patientspecific functional scale psfs is a widely used patientreported outcome measure that identifies a short list of patientchosen activities limited by the disease. The patientspecific functional scale oxford academic journals.
An outcome measure is a tool used to assess a patients current status1. The patientspecific functional scale msu rehabilitation. Breast cancer edge tool to evaluate physical therapy outcome measures for breast cancer. Revised patient specific functional scale psfs fax 888 5654225 patient last name patient first name patient id date of birth mmddyyyy provider last name provider first name provider. Outcome measures tac transport accident commission. The effect of oscillatingenergy manual therapy on lateral epicondylitis.
Measure data may be submitted by individual mips eligible clinicians using medicare part b claims. The patientspecific functional scale psfs is a selfreported, patientspecific measure, designed to assess functional change, primarily in patients presenting with musculoskeletal disorders. In order to standardize a measure for rehabilitative progress, acc has introduced mandatory recording of a score from the psfs 6 and the nprs. Outcome measures may provide a score, an interpretation of results and at times a risk categorization of the patient. The lower extremity functional scale lefs is a questionnaire containing 20 questions about a persons ability to perform everyday tasks. Please identify up to three important activities that you are unable to do or are having difficulty with as. Penn spasm frequency scale psfs spinal cord injury. Pdf the use of the patientspecific functional scale to. The primary outcome measure for the trial and this secondary analysis was the patient specific functional scale psfs, a widely utilized patientoriented outcome assessment instrument 14 15.
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Physiotherapy outcome measures please complete the psfs and nprs, or other outcome measures name. Patientspecific activity scoring scheme point to one number. Outcome use in occupational therapy indicated that some therapists used both biomechanical and self assessment of function measures in their practice to measure outcomes, but. Patient specific functional scale psfs page 2 patientspecific functional scale this questionnaire can be used to quantify activity limitation and measure functional outcome for patients with an. Patient specific functional scale rehabmeasures database. Patientspecific functional scale please identify at least three important activities that you are unable to do or have difficulty doing as a result of your current problem. Patient specific functional scale this useful questionnaire can be used to quantify activity limitation and measure functional outcome for patients with any orthopaedic condition. This patient specific functional scale psfs calculator allows a functional assessment of disability due to pain or injury based on personalized patient activities. Developed to augment clinical ratings of spasticity and provide a more. The european stroke organisation outcomes working group strongly encourages the use of ordinal methods both for calculating sample size for clinical trials and for analysing the results. As a default outcome measure for all musculoskeletal conditions by both the physiotherapy new zealand and new zealands national nofault accident and injury insurer acc. The patient specific functional scale psfs is a patientspecific outcome measure which investigates functional status stratford et al 1995.
Sf bbs3p, patient specific functional scale psfs inhomeoutpatient care. A manual therapy and exercise approach to breast cancer. Outcome measures in stroke european stroke organisation. Please rate your ability to do the following activities in the last week by circling the number below the appropriate response. Hydrotherapy outcome measures for people with arthritis.