APTA Outcome Measure Selection in Acute and Post-Acute Rehabilitation

Build a practical approach to selecting outcome measures in acute and post-acute rehabilitation.

Explore how outcome measures can be used to assess physical function, support clinical decision-making, and evaluate patient progress across acute and post-acute rehabilitation settings. Examine practical strategies for selecting and implementing outcome measures, with a focus on measurement properties, clinical utility, and standardized assessment of physical function.

What You'll Learn

By completing this course, you'll be able to:

• Compare performance-based and self-report outcome measures and their roles in assessing physical function.
• Examine key clinometric properties of outcome measures and their relevance to clinical practice.
• Consider how clinical utility influences the selection of outcome measures in acute and post-acute rehabilitation settings.
• Review the Core Outcome Measurement Set (COMS) and its recommendations for standardized assessment of physical function.

Course Highlights

• Flexible online learning: Complete this self-paced course on your schedule and revisit course content as needed.
• Practical application: Explore practical considerations for selecting outcome measures, including time, equipment, training requirements, and feasibility in practice.
• Clinical decision-making: Review the Core Outcome Measurement Set (COMS) and its recommendations for assessing physical function in hospitalized adults.
• Earn CEUs: 0.2 CEUs (2 contact hours)

Registration Rates

• APTA member PTs, PTAs, and post-professionals: $49
• APTA student members: Free
• Nonmembers: $69

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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