Title: (PDF) The needs assessment checklist: A clinical approach to measuring outcome
Headings: The needs assessment checklist: A clinical approach to measuring outcome
The needs assessment checklist: A clinical approach to measuring outcome
Authors:
Paul Kennedy
L R Hamilton
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Content: Independence, as measured by the Checklist, was signi®cantly greater in all domains
at the tim e of the second Needs Assessm ent. Conclusions: The Needs Assessment and Goal Planning Programme is successful in
establishing greater client independence, whet her asses sed at a verbal or physical level. Tea m
members have used the Needs Assessment Checklist as a behavioural indicator of
rehabilitation outcome based on available standards of rehabilitative care. Further
development of the Needs Assessm ent Checklist now needs to focus on establishing
concurrent validity and test/retest reliability. The measur e developed proved to be a useful,
clinically relev ant and patient friendly assessment of rehabilitation outcome. Keywords: outcome measurement; needs assessment; goal planning;