Using outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence and guide clinical decision-making (11.30am-12.30pm)
Tracks
Concurrent session W4
Collaboration
Professional practice
| Wednesday, May 29, 2024 |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM |
| River View Room 04 |
Overview
Samuel Calder, Rosemary Hodges and Sarah Masso
Details
⏫ Skill-building session
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)
Presenter
Dr Samuel Calder
University Of Tasmania
Using outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence and guide clinical decision-making
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPresentation summary
In this skill-building session, attendees will reflect on their use of outcome measures when gathering practice-based evidence to plan and evaluate therapeutic supports for people with communication and/or swallowing difficulties. Prior to the session, attendees will receive some brief materials to encouraged them to consider examples of measures they currently collect in clinical practice and their purpose for using these measures as well as how these measures are used in collaboration with the people whom speech pathologists serve, and how these measures influence choice, control, and accountability during a service response. This initial exploration of outcome measurement in practice-based evidence will be contextualised within the four pillars of evidence-based practice and the WHO ICF. The practical components of the session will focus on linking goals to outcome measures and prompt attendees to consider the purpose of outcome measurement, the use of proximal and distal outcome measures, the availability of outcome measures, the frequency and timing at which outcomes are measured, and how this information can be used to adjust goals for people with communication and/or swallowing difficulties. This will include discussion about ceasing therapeutic support. Attendees will apply the skill of linking outcome measures to goals by working through a case study of their choice, representing varied practice settings and contexts (e.g. paediatric, adult, 1:1, group-based, consultative). A therapy plan template will be made available to attendees to guide their clinical reasoning and planning. Opportunities to share relevant outcome measures amongst attendees will be facilitated through the use of a Padlet. This skill-building session will highlight the essential practice of selecting outcome measures to collaboratively set goals, evaluate the impact of our supports, and respond to our ethical obligation to empower choice and control within the people whom we serve as speech pathologists through practice-based evidence.
Key messages
1. Knowledge of the varied purposes of outcome measurement within their own practice setting/s.
2) The skills to link goals and outcome measures, consider the frequency and timing of outcome measurement, and identify how outcome measurement can be used to empower the people whom we serve to collaboratively make choices and exert control throughout a service response.
3) Useful resources including a crowd-sourced outcome measure Padlet and a therapy plan template to guide decision-making and planning of therapeutic supports.
2) The skills to link goals and outcome measures, consider the frequency and timing of outcome measurement, and identify how outcome measurement can be used to empower the people whom we serve to collaboratively make choices and exert control throughout a service response.
3) Useful resources including a crowd-sourced outcome measure Padlet and a therapy plan template to guide decision-making and planning of therapeutic supports.
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Dr Sam Calder is a speech pathologist and lecturer at the University of Tasmania. He is the early career representative for the International Collaborative Network for N-of-1 Trials and Single-Case Designs. Sam is passionate about evidence-based practice in speech-language pathology and evaluating the effectiveness of paediatric speech, language, and literacy interventions. In particular, his work has focused on improving morphosyntactic outcomes for early school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder.
Dr Rosemary Hodges
Clinical Director
Word Stars Speech Pathology
Using outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence and guide clinical decision-making
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM**********
Rosie is the clinical director at Word Stars Speech Pathology (WSSP), a private practice in Western Sydney. Rosie has over 10 years clinical experience across a variety of settings including private practice, school-based, and not-for-profit services. In 2016, she completed her PhD at The University of Sydney on the speech and language skills of late talking toddlers. Since then, she has continued to engage in research on developmental and acquired communication disorders in children.
Rosie provides supervision and mentoring at WSSP and works closely with the Managing Director to develop and evaluate services and projects. Clinically, Rosie maintains a small early intervention caseload.
Rosie is passionate about evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence in speech pathology. She regularly provides professional development within the profession via workshops, conferences, and mentoring. She is also a strong advocate for raising awareness of communication difficulties within the community, particularly in early childhood education.
Dr Sarah Masso
Research Fellow
The University Of Sydney
Using outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence and guide clinical decision-making
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM**********
Dr Sarah Masso is a speech pathologist and research fellow at The University of Sydney. Her recent research has been funded by a Discovery Early Career Research Award (Australia, 2020-2024) and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (Germany, 2021-2022). Through these opportunities, Sarah has explored the speech and literacy development of children with speech sound disorders in Australia and Germany. In addition to clinical curiosities, she is interested in maximising the efficiency and transparency of data collected in research.
Elizabeth Murray
Using outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence and guide clinical decision-making
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM**********
Session chair
Emma Wallace
Student volunteer(s)
Eddie Carey
Curtin University
Sophia Jo
Curtin University
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