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

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Dear Karim,
Maybe they are all on holiday.
As a UK intensivist, who gets very little trauma ( good cars, motorway  
traffic jams, all cases going to you, etc etc ) when patients are in  
icu the database asks about level of independance before admission,  
and expected level after discharge.
I thinnk I can be certain that locally that is all that is ever asked.

Nick
On 19 Aug 2009, at 14:24, Karim Brohi wrote:

> *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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Dr NJD Macartney
ICU Director
Chase Farm Hospital
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