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Physiotherapists Have Accurate Expectations Of Their Patients’ Future Health-Related Quality Of Life After First Assessment In A Subacute Rehabilitation Setting, Steven M. Mcphail, Emily Nalder, Anne-Marie Hill, Terry P. Haines
Physiotherapists Have Accurate Expectations Of Their Patients’ Future Health-Related Quality Of Life After First Assessment In A Subacute Rehabilitation Setting, Steven M. Mcphail, Emily Nalder, Anne-Marie Hill, Terry P. Haines
Physiotherapy Papers and Journal Articles
Background.
Expectations held by health professionals and their patients are likely to affect treatment choices in subacute inpatient rehabilitation settings for older adults. There is a scarcity of empirical evidence evaluating whether health professionals expectations of the quality of their patients’ future health states are accurate.
Methods.
A prospective longitudinal cohort investigation was implemented to examine agreement (kappa coefficients, exact agreement, limits-of-agreement, and intraclass-correlation coefficients) between physiotherapists’ (n=23) prediction of patients’ discharge health-related quality of life (reported on the EQ-5D-3L) and the actual health-related quality of life self-reported by patients (n=272) at their discharge assessment (using the EQ-5D-3L). The mini-mental …