Outcome Measures (Quiz 1)

Question 1

How outcome measures aid clinical practice

Answer 1

document patient health status
recommended treatment
document clinical care
enhance communication regarding all of the above
buy-in from the most important stakeholder

Question 2

Performance-based

Answer 2

collect information on physical performances
collected through performance tasks often measured clinically by test administrator

Question 3

Self report measures

Answer 3

collect information that is dependent on the perceptions of the patient

collected in the form of standardized questionnaires with ordinal data

Question 4

reliability

Answer 4

the instrument produces measurements that are consistent and without error

if no change has occurred the instrument measurement is the same

Question 5

Validity

Answer 5

instrument measures the characteristic it is intended to measure

we can measure valuable information on the variable of interest