Implementing Goal Attainment Scaling as a Person-Centered Measurement Tool to Direct Care and Evaluate Outcomes in Neurorehabilitation Settings.

The purpose of this Special Communication is to describe barriers and facilitators to implementing goal attainment scaling (GAS) as a patient-centered measurement tool in neurorehabilitation settings. The experiences of 3 distinct neurorehabilitation settings that implemented GAS to enhance person-centered care and measure person-centered goal attainment are described: a neurorehabilitation service at an inpatient rehabilitation facility; an intensive outpatient program serving military service members, veterans, and first responders with a history of mild to moderate traumatic brain injury; and an outpatient clinic serving adolescents and adults with recent history of mild traumatic brain injury. Each setting instituted different methods to implement GAS yet experienced commonalities in barriers and facilitators to implementation and adoption.

mTBI evaluation, management, and referral to allied healthcare: practices of first-line healthcare professionals.

Primary Objective: To gain an understanding of current evaluation practices, post-injury recommendations, and referrals to allied healthcare professions (AHP) by first-line healthcare professionals (FHPs) providing care for people with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

Research Design: Survey study.

Methods And Procedures: Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and athletic trainers ( = 126) completed an online survey, including Likert scale and free response question relating to mTBI evaluation, management, and referral practices.

Use of person-centered goals to direct interdisciplinary care for military service members and Veterans with chronic mTBI and co-occurring psychological conditions.

Objective: To explore the use of person-centered goals (PCGs) to direct interdisciplinary care to support PCG attainment in military service members and Veterans (SM/Vs) with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and co-occurring psychological conditions.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was completed for 146 United States military SM/Vs reporting chronic symptoms following mTBI and co-occurring psychological conditions who received care in the SHARE Military Initiative intensive outpatient program, a donor-funded program administered by a not-for-profit hospital, between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2019. PCGs were used to direct care consisting of individual and group-based interventions and therapies delivered by an interdisciplinary, co-located team including behavioral health, case management, neurology or physiatry, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, recreation therapy, speech-language pathology, and transition support.