Computer-Assisted Functional Assessment and Documentation.
Occupational therapy personnel spend considerable time on functional assessment and documentation. The rapid and error-free information processing ability of computers offers methods for data collection, clinical decision making, and reporting of functional assessment results, which may be more effe...
| Published in: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 47; no. 11; pp. 988 - 993 |
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| Format: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Nov1993
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=86055189&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 86055189 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02729490 44I jtl: American Journal of Occupational Therapy issn: 02729490 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov1993 vid: 47 iid: 11 pid: 6680 pub: American Occupational Therapy Association place: North Bethesda, Maryland artinfo: ui: 86055189 86055189 108008343 10.5014/ajot.47.11.988 86055189 ppf: 988 ppct: 5 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Computer-Assisted Functional Assessment and Documentation. aug: au: Smith, Roger O. affil: Associate Director, Trace Research and Development Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, S-151 Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin sug: subj: Functional Assessment Occupational Therapy Assessment Documentation Computers and Computerization Utilization Decision Making, Clinical Software Data Collection, Computer Assisted Decision Support Systems, Clinical Reports Writing ab: Occupational therapy personnel spend considerable time on functional assessment and documentation. The rapid and error-free information processing ability of computers offers methods for data collection, clinical decision making, and reporting of functional assessment results, which may be more effective and efficient than the current paper-and-pencil methods. Computers can provide assistance throughout the many steps of the functional assessment and reporting process. Software is available to assist in direct data collection, data reduction, and analysis, or to assess complex data systems and databases. Additionally, computers can use assessment techniques, such as dynamic question sets and expert systems, which have not been possible with paper-and-pencil methods. Furthermore, data collected on computers are readily available to be integrated in computer-assisted report writing and can be compiled into large databases for analysis. These databases can be used for program evaluation, continuous quality iinprovement exercises, and other research objectives. This paper provides a snapshot of these computer uses in the assessment process. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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