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What the Rehabilitation Measures Database Can Do For You
Session Description/Research Abstract
Background: Clinicians’ utilization of valid and reliable standardized assessments is critical to monitoring clients’ progress. The Rehabilitation Measures Database (RMD) is an on-line resource providing information regarding standardized assessments. The RMD has grown into a widely-used educational resource for researchers, clinicians, faculty, and students with over 530 free access summaries of psychometric data, professional recommendations, and references to literature on specific measures. This presentation will describe RMD’s history, use of standardized assessments and measurement principles for physical rehabilitation and therapeutic recreation, discuss the development and maintenance of the RMD, describe opportunities for recreation therapists’ and educators’ participation, and outline current plans and future directions for RMD expansion.
Methods: We collaborate with clinicians, researchers, faculty and students in the development and updating of RMD instrument summaries. An Author Toolkit guides RMD contributors in creating uniform, standardized instrument summaries. Students in health sciences programs create or update instrument summaries as part of a research class assignment. We use Google analytics to monitor the utilization of the RMD.
Results: The Author Toolkit contains instructional documents and educational resources related to measurement that serves as the foundation of the RMD. We recently expanded the Author Toolkit to include instructions for adding Common Data Elements, clinical practice guidelines, and professional association recommendations.
Conclusions: The RMD helps students, clinicians, educators, and researchers in health sciences select instruments with good psychometric properties. Clients benefit from test scores that are reliable, valid, and sensitive to change, and provide them and their clinicians with evidence of therapy progress.
Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the Rehabilitation Measures Database and how to use it.
2. Identify the relevance to use in Therapeutic Recreation.
3. Discuss how to incorporate the Rehabilitation Measures Database into coursework.
Population/Setting:
Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine
Research
CEUs:
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Primary Presenter
Linda Ehrlich-Jones, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University
Credentials
PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAAN
Biographical Information
Linda Ehrlich-Jones, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAAN is the Associate Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and a Research Associate Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Knox College and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rush University in Chicago, her Masters of Science in Nursing from Loyola University in Chicago and her PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Ehrlich-Jones has been the overseer of the Rehabilitation Measures Database since its inception in 2011. She initiated the ACRM Rehabilitation Measures Database Task Force in 2016 and is the current Chair of the ACRM Measurement Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group.
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Co-Presenter/panelists
Allen W. Heinemann, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University
Credentials
PhD
Email Address
Biographical Information
Dr. Heinemann directs a rehabilitation-focused health services research program at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and has expertise in outcomes measurement. He contributed to development of the Orthotics Prosthetics User Survey, the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement System (PROMIS), the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (NeuroQOL) measurement system, the TBI Quality of Life Measurement System, the Spinal Cord Injury Functional Index (SCI-FI), and the Substance Abuse for Vocational Rehabilitation Screener (SAVRS), among others. The Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research developed the Rehabilitation Measures Database, an on-line compendium of systematic reviews of outcome instruments that are suitable for research and clinical applications. He provides leadership for Northwestern University’s integrated post-doctoral fellowship program in Health Services and Outcomes Research.
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