Worker's Comp. Patient Outcome Study

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Our PT clinic, along with a pair of pain physicians, and a psychologist are

attempting to outline an outcome study that we can perform to provide data we

can use for marketing our Industrial Rehabilitation program. We want to show

that patients will progress through their treatment programs sooner, with better

outcomes if we are able to aggressively treat them through pain interventions,

PT, and behavioral counseling/ group therapy. Any suggestions on data collection

and outcome measures to use? I know that for most carriers, the bottom line is

$.....so, should we be showing costs? # of visits? functional lift levels at

evaluation vs. discharge???......Just need some suggestions because a

statistician I am not. Thanks in advance.

Hill, PT

Meridian, MS