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The influence and added value of a Standardized Assessment and Reporting System for functioning outcomes upon national rehabilitation quality reports

  • Objective To demonstrate the influence and added value of a Standardized Assessment and Reporting System (StARS) upon the reporting of functioning outcomes for national rehabilitation quality reports. A StARS builds upon an ICF-based (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) and interval-scaled common metric. Design Comparison of current ordinal-scaled Swiss national rehabilitation outcome reports including an expert-consensus-based transformation scale with StARS-based reports through descriptive statistical methods and content exploration of further development areas of the reports with relevant ICF Core Sets. Setting Swiss national public rehabilitation outcome quality reports on the clinic level. Participants A total of 29 Swiss rehabilitation clinics provided their quality report datasets including 18 047 patients. Interventions Neurological or musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Main outcome measures Functional Independence Measure™ or Extended Barthel Index. Results Outcomes reported with a StARS tended to be smaller but more precise than in the current ordinal-scaled reports, indicating an overestimation of achieved outcomes in the latter. The comparison of the common metric’s content with ICF Core Sets suggests to include ‘energy and drive functions’ or ‘maintaining a basic body position’ to enhance the content of functioning as an indicator. Conclusions A StARS supports the comparison of outcomes assessed with different measures on the same interval-scaled ICF-based common metric. Careful consideration is needed whether an ordinal-scaled or interval-scaled reporting system is applied as the magnitude and precision of reported outcomes is influenced. The StARS’ ICF basis brings an added value by informing further development of functioning as a relevant indicator for national outcome quality reports in rehabilitation.

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Author:R. Maritz, C. Ehrmann, Birgit Prodinger, A. Tennant, G. Stucki
URL:https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa058
Parent Title (English):International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Place of publication:Oxford
Document Type:Article (peer reviewed)
Language:English
Publication Year:2020
Tag:international classification of functioning, disability and health; outcome assessment (health care); psychometrics; public reporting of healthcare data; quality of health care; rehabilitation
Volume:32
Issue:6
First Page:379
Last Page:387
Peer reviewed:Ja
faculties / departments:Fakultät für Angewandte Gesundheits- und Sozialwissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit