week 2 - part 1

Flashcards for key vocabulary and concepts from a lecture on the fundamentals of measurement in physical therapy.

Construct

What you are interested in measuring.

Measure

How a construct is measured; also called a tool or an instrument.

Screening Measures

Designed to estimate how likely it is that a healthy person will have a certain condition in the future and whether further investigations should be pursued.

Diagnostic Measures

Tests designed to determine whether someone does or does not have a certain condition.

Prognostic Tools

Designed to help predict whether or when a patient will recover.

Treatment-based classification tools

Designed to direct a patient toward a certain type of treatment.

Outcome measures

Designed to track the level or presence of a symptom, function, or disease marker.

Subjectivity

The extent of personal judgment involved in taking a measure, whether by the patient or the observer.

Patient-reported measures

Ratings provided by the patient, often through questionnaires or verbal questions, to rate symptom severity, impacts of a condition, or psychological constructs.

Observer-rated measures

Measures involving observations made by the clinician, including physical capacity, movement quality, and clinical tests; these involve subjective judgment.

Administrative data

Metrics such as hospital attendance, work absence, insurance claim data, and death, commonly used in research.

Patient Relevance

Judgment as to how important the outcome construct is to your patient.