Interpreting activity of daily living errors for treatment and discharge planning: the perception of occupational therapists.
OBJECTIVE
As clinician ratings of performance-based assessments of activities of daily living (ADL) require examiners to judge the appropriateness of actions within task context, this study sought to document occupational therapists' (OTs') ability to distinguish examples of potential ADL errors of healthy adults (HA) from those of individuals with frontal lobe lesions (FLL).


METHODS
Eighty-two OTs were asked to identify the likely source population (HA/FLL) associated with 26 ADL errors.


RESULTS
Only 50% of errors were related to the correct source population by more than 70% of OTs.


CONCLUSIONS
Performance-based ADL assessments allowing for the documentation of context could enhance OTs' interpretation of ADL errors.
Bottari
Carolina
C
School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. carolina.bottari@umontreal.ca
Swaine
Bonnie
B
Dutil
Elisabeth
E
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care