Documenting outcomes of occupational therapy: the center for outcomes research and education.
This article presents two themes related to the development and implementation of sound outcomes research that emerged from a 3-year dialogue among fellows of the University of Illinois Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE). These themes are: that outcomes research needs to be an interrelated multi-method system of investigation, and it should be developed in collaboration with its key stakeholders (consumers and practitioners). Examples from the literature and from a cluster of papers published in this focus issue are used to exemplify the themes.
Kielhofner
Gary
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Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Applied Health Sciences Building, Room 354, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7250, USA. kielhfnr@uic.edu
Hammel
Joy
J
Finlayson
Marcia
M
Helfrich
Christine
C
Taylor
Renée R
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D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*