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Disability Measures, Assessments & Scores - do you use any routinely?

Karim Brohi karim at trauma.org
Wed Aug 19 14:24:35 BST 2009


*Interesting*.  There are over 2700 members of the trauma-list.  Does
*no-one* out there routinely measure post-trauma disability in their patient
population?  (Or even a sub-group)?Karim

2009/8/18 Robert Smith <rfsmithmd at comcast.net>

> I know some years ago Ellen Mackenzie was working on developing a
> disability tool. I don't know if her work came to fruition. It was an
> ambitious project.
>
> In any event she would be a good person to ask. emackenz at jhsph.edu. If you
> do please share the response with the list.
>
> Rob
>
> On Aug 16, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Karim Brohi wrote:
>
>  Are any of you routinely measuring and recording disability in your trauma
>> population?If so which tools are you using to conduct these assessments
>> and
>> why did you choose that tool over any other?
>> After several decades we seem to have a multitude of different tools, with
>> new ones every year, but very few that have been validated or that have
>> outcomes.
>> Thoughts?
>> Karim
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