Routine clinical outcome assessment

Routine outcome assessment or Routine Outcome Measurement (ROM) is increasingly being adopted as part of everyday clinical practice.

There are a number of factors leading to this development Practice-based evidence both favour the production of clinical outcome data in order to facilitate clinical decision making.
 * The philosophies of evidenced-based practice and
 * The development if a number of convenient instruments has meant that clinicans with an interest in exploring the outcome of their work have easy, and sometimes free, access to the appropriate tools
 * Purchasers of psychological treatments, whether individuals, or organizations are increasingly calling for data demonstrating treatment efffectiveness.
 * Clinical managers increasingly call for such data in order to monitor the services provided

Instruments suitable for the routine assessment of clinical outcome

 * CORE-OM
 * HoNOS
 * Outcome Questionaire

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References & Bibliography


Papers

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