RT Book, Section
A1 Kettenbach, Ginge
A1 Schlomer, Sarah L.
A1 FitzGerald, Jill
SR Print(0)
ID 1180747473
T1 The SOAP Note: Stating the Problem
T2 Writing Patient/Client Notes
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB F. A. Davis Company
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803638204
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180747473
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  Problem  or  Diagnosis  is  the  first  section  of  the  SOAP  Note.  While  learning  how  to  write  in  the  SOAP  Note  format,  you  will  notice  you  are  using  the  same  information  that  you  used  to  write  in  the  Patient/Client  Management  Note  format.  However,  in  the  SOAP  Note  format  you  are  organizing  according  to  the  source  of  the  information  instead  of  the  type  of  information  as  you  did  in  the  Patient  Management  Note  format.  The  American  Physical  Therapy  Association  has  expressed  a  concern  that  many  therapists  have  developed  bad  habits  using  the  SOAP  format.1  Either  note  format  can  represent  best  practice  in  documentation  as  long  as  the  components  of  the  patient  management  model  are  represented.