TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Acknowledging Barriers and Identifying Barrier-Busting Strategies A1 - Riddle, Daniel L. A1 - Stratford, Paul W. Y1 - 2013 N1 - T2 - Is This Change Real? AB - Choosing a standardized outcome measure that will be effective in your clinical setting can be challenging and requires some work on the front end to help ensure success. All too often, physical therapists enthusiastic about using standardized outcome measures in their practices have become jaded when attempting to implement the measures. This has often led to abandoning them. There are two prominent reasons for this. The first is that the physical therapists did not have a clear vision of what they wanted to assess with the measure. The second reason is that the therapists did not consider potential barriers associated with implementing the selected outcome measure in the therapists' unique clinical settings. In this chapter we first identify potential barriers to the successful implementation of outcome measures in clinical practice and then offer six steps that will enhance your chance of selecting a measure that can be successfully implemented in your clinical setting. SN - PB - F. A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/09 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180746418 ER -