Meaningful Goals Just Got Easier: Patient-Reported
Outcome Measures (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Sarah Baar
Nonfinancial: Sarah Baar is a chapter author in Neurogenic Communication Disorders and the Life Participation Approach.
This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from standard MedBridge courses.
Have you ever struggled to blend the pressures of writing both meaningful and measurable goals for clients? Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are a growing and valuable resource that can help support meaningful outcomes for those we work with.
This webinar will address the story of how PROMs fit into the big picture of what we as rehabilitation professionals do, the potential benefits of PROMs, the latest PROM resources, and how PROMs are used in various clinical scenarios. You’ll leave this session ready to use this knowledge and the strategies provided in the webinar within your own practice.
Meet your instructor
Sarah Baar
Sarah Baar is a speech-language pathologist in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has had the opportunity to work in many settings across the care continuum, including acute care, acute rehab, home and community, and outpatient therapy, and has been involved in various leadership projects. In 2016, she started the Honeycomb Speech…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. The Person-Centered Care Movement in Healthcare
This chapter establishes the current healthcare climate, emphasizing person-centered care while also describing the accompanying workflow challenges.
2. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: The Basics
This chapter introduces patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and discusses them as a tangible way to implement person-centered care as well as a solution to several challenges in goal setting within adult rehab.
3. Insurance Emphasis on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
This chapter clarifies the unambiguous support that insurance/reimbursement has for the use of patient-reported outcome measures.
4. Take a Tour of HealthMeasures
HealthMeasures is a hub of broad PROMs. This chapter gives a curated summary for the rehab professional of how to use this website and examples of measures that may be helpful and relevant.
5. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Specific Clinical Populations
Many PROMs have also been created for specific clients, settings, or needs. This chapter will look at several examples, highlighting the populations they would benefit.
6. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Tricky Situations
This chapter highlights how certain PROMs or adaptations may be used to gain patient reports, even in tricky clinical situations.
7. Making the Link: PROMs and Writing Goals
This chapter connects the clinical process with clear examples so that the rehab professional can make the link between giving a PROM, writing a goal, and spending therapy time.
8. Question and Answer Session
In this section, Sarah Baar takes questions from the audience to further clarify the material presented.
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