Description
Book SynopsisAn updated reference on outcomes in speech-language pathology"
Based on the pioneering work of Carol C. Frattali, Outcomes in Speech-Language Pathology, Second Edition provides readers with a focused, comprehensive review of current policies, principles, and practices pertaining to outcome measurement in speech-language pathology with particular emphasis on healthcare. It is a unique text that covers outcomes in speech-language pathology practices within the context of contemporary issues across work settings that include clinical practice, applied clinical research, and graduate education.
Key Features:
- The only text that specifically focuses on outcome measurement in speech-language pathology
- Major themes from the first edition are revisited in light of the impact of contemporary issues and shifts in emphasis in outcomes, including:
- The prominence of the WHO-ICF as a conceptual model for intervention
- The impact of public policies and federal mandates
- Emphasis on value-based, cost-effective clinical healthcare services
- Growing transparency in organizational performance in accreditation processes
- The weight currently placed on patient satisfaction and patient-reported outcomes
- Outcomes assessment across stakeholders in school settings
- Challenges and revised perspectives on the application of evidence-based practice
- Increasing demand for applied effectiveness research to inform clinical practices
- Renewed reliance on single subject experimental designs in SLP intervention research and the application of N=1 research designs to clinical practice
- The growing emphasis on outcomes in graduate clinical education and supervision as well as in higher education
Directors and managers of clinical speech-language pathology programs in healthcare settings as well as clinical staff and supervisors will find this book to be a valuable desk reference and graduate students will use it as a key resource in the course of their studies.
Table of ContentsSection I. History and Contemporary Issues
1. Outcomes Measurement: Definitions, Dimensions, and Perspectives
2. Outcomes Measurement: Converging Issues, Trends, and Influences
3. WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: A Framework for Clinical and Research Outcomes
4. Outcomes Measurement in Federal Programs and Public Policy
Section II. Clinical Services
5. Outcomes Measurement in Health Care
6. Outcomes Matter in School Service Delivery
7. Outcomes in Long-Term Care Settings
Section III. Organizational Performance
8. Outcomes in Health Care: Achieving Transparency Through Accreditation
9. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Speech-Language Pathology Outcomes
10. Defining Quality Through Patient Safety and Satisfaction Outcomes
11. Outcome Assessment for Improving Organizational Efficiencies
Section IV. Research
12. Treatment Research
13. Evidence-Based Practice: Applying Research Outcomes to Inform Clinical Practice
14. Applying Single-Subject Experimental Research to Inform Clinical Practice
15. Meta-Analysis in Outcomes Research
Section V. Graduate Education
16. Outcomes Measurement in Graduate Clinical Education and Supervision
17. Outcomes in Higher Education
