Measuring and Managing Patients, Practitioners and Therapies in Rehabilitation

PART I 1. Philosophy and Overview 2. The Cost of the Problem 3 Measurement And Measures Theoretical Aspects? The Quantity of Quality PART II What Should/Could Be Measured, Why And How? Understanding and measuring the construct, the patient, and the practitioner. For each chapter authors will: 1) define and discuss the key construct (include physiological, physical psychological , 2) describe the tools in common clinical use that purport to measure the construct, 3) critique the measures in terms of the influence of confounding factors, 4) discuss what the measures reveal and what they don't, 5) using data, discuss the application and use of measures in specific patient populations. Patient Self-report Measures 4. Assessment (spinal) 5. Assessment 6. Pain and pain beliefs 7. Fear and associated beliefs 8. Fatigue (physiological - self report) 9. Quality of Life 10. Satisfaction 11. Measuring Activity Clinician Derived Measures 12. Function/performance (simple tests) 13. Fitness (Aerobic, flexibility etc) 14. Movement and motor control (EMG, kinetics, kinematics) 15. Gait 16. Functional capacity 17. Functional capacity 18. Functional capacity 19. Impairment measures - do they play a role? Assessing the Clinician 20. Understanding and measuring the practitioner.(Knowledge, beliefs and biases, assessment and treatment skills) 21. Self-efficacy 22. Using the US physio database 23. Understanding and measuring non-specific treatment effects (placebo) PART III Specific Populations a broader perspective of assessment and therefore management 24. Low Back Pain 25. Fibromyalgia/arthritides 26. Cancer - outcome measures 27. HIV/AIDS 28. End-of-life/Elderly 29. Musculoskeletal pa