Hello All:
I just evaluated a patient with multiple medical issues. As part of
the eval, I administered the COPM. The patient scores indicate that
she is dissatisfied with her mobility and self-feeding. She has joint
ROM issues and pain secondary to RA and is mildly depressed because of
her living situation. Here COPM scores are:
Performance Satisfaction
Mobility 5 3
Feeding 10 5
So here's my question.
When drafting the patient's plan of treatment what becomes the goals;
1. Improving the COPM performance and satisfaction scores
<or>
2. Improving the patient's actual mobility and self-feeding.
To put it another way, if we take the mobility issue, should the goal
read:
1. Patient's COPM mobility scores will improve to 8 and 10
<or>
1. Patient will safely and independtly ambulate to/from her ALF dining
room using a 4-wheel rolling walker.
I like the concept of using the COPM scores but I can only imagine
what an MD thinks when he reads this stuff. I don't send them the
actual COPM, only my plan of treatment.
Ron
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