Secondary School Athletic Trainers’ Perceptions, Practices, and Barriers to the Use of Patient Rated-Outcomes Measures

An abstract of a study by Coulombe et al exploring how secondary school athletic trainers (ATs) using patient reported outcomes (PROs) perceive the uses, benefits, and problems of these measures compared to those who do not is presented. Improving communication with the patient (267/296, 90%) and he...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of athletic training 2017-06, Vol.52 (6), p.S21
Main Authors: Coulombe, B J, Games, K E, Guindon, C, Eberman, L E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Athletic Coaches
Barriers
Clinical medicine
Endorsements
Outcome Measures
Personal trainers
Secondary schools
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:An abstract of a study by Coulombe et al exploring how secondary school athletic trainers (ATs) using patient reported outcomes (PROs) perceive the uses, benefits, and problems of these measures compared to those who do not is presented. Improving communication with the patient (267/296, 90%) and helping direct the plan of care (256/297, 86%) were the most frequently endorsed benefits of PROs. The most frequently endorsed uses of PROs were determining treatment effectiveness (193/264, 73%) and demonstrating effectiveness to administration (174/264, 66%). Time to score and analyze (152/284, 53%) and time for patients to complete (134/284, 47%) were the most frequently endorsed problems of PROs. For ATs not using PROs (223/262, 85%), the most frequent reasons were requiring a support structure that they do not have (102/219, 46%), and too much time to score (90/219, 41%). For ATs using PROs (39/262, 15%), quick completion times (32/39, 82%) and easy to understand (31/39, 79%) were the most frequent criteria used to select measures for clinical use.
ISSN:1062-6050
1938-162X