Consistency of a categorisation framework for IMP-OS
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring a Categorisation Framework for the Individual Management Plan – Outcome Score (IMP-OS): Consistency of a Proposed Categorisation Framework
IRAS ID
272329
Contact name
Jane Wild
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Sponsor organisation
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 22 days
Research summary
The study is part of wider development of an outcome measure for use in audiology. Individual Management Plan - Outcome Score (IMP-OS) was designed to address disadvantages of existing measures. It aims to facilitate patient-centred care and be easily integrated into clinical practice by being an additional step to individual management plans (IMPs). IMPs are used throughout UK audiology services to set individualised 'needs' that may be addressed with several interventions. IMP-OS relies on reflecting on achievement of set 'needs' at the end of rehabiliation and scoring them on a scale and with a descriptive statement. This is the main outcome measure used by the Betsi Cadwaladr Univeristy Health Board (BCUHB) adult audiology service. A disadvantage of this type of outcome measure is difficulty collating data across groups of patients for quality assurance and service development purposes. This was one of the criteria that IMP-OS was hoped to fulfil during the design process. Creation of a categorisation framework that groups individualised 'needs' into common themes/categories could allow this criterion to be met and for meaningful interpretations about performance of the service to be made. A previous qualitative BCUHB study identified common themes of individualised 'needs' from clinicians' perspectives. This in turn led to development of a proposed categorisation framework, which will be trialled by clinicians in the current study. 10 BCUHB audiology clinicians will be asked to categorise 250 patient 'needs' using a Microsoft Excel workbook. The sample of 'needs' will be taken from an existing BCUHB registered clinical audit and stored anonymously. Consistency of categorisation between clinicians will be analysed using several measures of agreement. This will help determine whether the proposed categorisation framework is suitable.
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