Episode 64: Digging into PROMS: Patient Reported Outcome Measures with Bonnie Slavych, PhD, CCC-SLP, ACUE
As our practice embraces a patient-centered care model, PROMs - Patient Reported Outcome Measures, can help identify patient’s concerns and measure the progress of therapy to address those complaints. Bonnie Slavych answers the important questions of what a PROM is, what it does, and how to use it in your practice. These are simple tools to incorporate into your practice that can help steer your evaluation process to ensure the patient’s goals are foremost in the creation of the plan of care. PROMs can also give us valuable qualitative and quantitative data to report in our discharge notes regarding the impact therapy has had on the patient’s impairments.
topics covered:
Getting involved in research
What is a PROM?
How to select and use a PROM
Future research for PROMs
“PROMs are tools that can help you make sure you’re truly embracing a patient care model. ”
This podcast is accompanied by an audio course offered for ASHA CEU credit by SpeechTherapyPD.com
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Created by Dr. Bonnie Slavych
Created by Dr. Bonnie Slavych (4/20/20)
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Bonnie K. Slavych is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Disorders Program at the University of Central Missouri, where she has been since Fall 2018. Prior to her professorial appointment, she served as a rehabilitation director and speech language pathologist in the skilled nursing facility and has also served in other medical and non-medical settings. Bonnie earned her Ph.D. in Communication Disorders from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2017 and her certification in Effective Teaching Practices from the Association of College and University Educators.
As an assistant professor, Bonnie teaches courses in voice disorders, pediatric and adult feeding and swallowing disorders, research design, neuroscience, and evidence-based practice. Her research interests span both voice disorders and teaching efficacy. Bonnie is a 2019 recipient of the ASHA Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award, which has provided funding, in part, for the development of an adolescent voice-related patient-reported outcome measure.
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