Background: Outcome measurement is important to clinical practice—yet outcome many
speech and language therapists find it difficult to apply measures in practice, and not all …

Outcomes information contributes to the provision of quality services: sharing that
information requires speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to use terminology readily …

In a climate of increasing accountability within speech pathology services, the purpose of
this study was to document the experiences of Australian speech pathologists' use of …

Within health service provision worldwide, the issue of how best to spend scarce resources
is unlikely to disappear. In North America, Europe, and Australasia, the need to ensure that …

Abstract Determining the optimal amount of intervention is possibly the biggest challenge
facing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) today. Baker (2012) has provided an erudite …

The Therapy Outcome Measure (TOM) aims to provide Speech and Language Therapists
(SLT) with a practical tool to measure outcomes of care by providing a quick and simple …

Purpose The patient's perspective of their health is a core component of evidence-based
practice (EBP) and person-centered care. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs), captured with …

In her seminal book on outcome measurement in the field of communication disorders, Carol
Frattali (1998) set the path for outcomes research and clinical application in the field of …

Background: The use of outcome measures to monitor improved quality of care has been
advocated for 20 years but has only achieved prominence with the increasing resource …

The growth of managed care and increasing demands by school systems resulted in of a
number of new audiences looking for the evidence underlying the practice of speech …