Abstract
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are seen as increasingly beneficial to patient-centered clinical practice, but implementation of routine collection and utilization into clinical care can be challenging. Our interdisciplinary quality improvement (QI) team used the Institute for Health Care Improvement Model for Improvement methodology to address this problem in our outpatient neurorehabilitation program. We used a participatory approach to identify the PROM rehabilitation stakeholders found to be most appropriate to implement in the outpatient settings; chart audits were conducted to determine the extent to which clinicians implemented the PROM and documented a PROM-related goal. Opportunistic clinician feedback was collected to determine single PROM usefulness and acceptability. Our 4-month initiative demonstrated increased collection of a PROM, the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS), and incorporation into patient-centered goal. Use of QI methodology was beneficial when planning and executing our initiative. Future work is needed to examine factors to sustain PSFS use, incorporation into patient-centered goal setting, and maximize meaningful patient outcomes.
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