RACP - Measurement and Review >> Deciding on the evidence-based measures >> b. Prioritise the indicators in terms of their potential usefulness to the project team and ease of collection

Measurement and Review >> Deciding on the evidence-based measures

b. Prioritise the indicators in terms of their potential usefulness to the project team and their ease of collection

Some indicators will be relatively straightforward because the data are routinely recorded in patient notes. Others may not be routinely recorded but the project considers them to be important, so other ways of capturing the data will need to be explored. Clinicians may need to be trained and supported in recording this data routinely (this may itself constitute an intervention).

How to prioritise indicators needs to be agreed by the multidisciplinary team.

If priorities are skewed too heavily towards one clinical discipline, there is a risk that other disciplines will disengage from the project. Try to ensure that there is at least one indicator for each major discipline involved in your project, i.e. there is something for everybody.

" It goes back to the CRFs. What are we collecting evidence on? How does it relate to our practice as a multidisciplinary team? What’s it telling us on our practice as allied health professionals? Is it more related to the medical case? How is it going to change our practice if we are not getting data for our disciplines? I collect the information but as things stand it is not pertinent to my practice..."

"...Data collection met some of the needs of our team but data does not have much relevance to me as an OT."

Monash University Consortium