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![]() In
the early 1980's, a national task force was convened and a grant written
with a goal of developing a method to document the severity of patient
disability and outcomes of medical rehabilitation. As a result, the FIM™
instrument was established to promote a common language to describe disability
across all rehabilitation disciplines and to provide a basis to compare
rehabilitation outcomes and the Uniform
Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR®)
was created to manage the data. The FIM™ instrument is currently
used in over 1,400 facilities nationally and internationally. Data is
collected at admission and discharge from inpatient rehabilitation and
at a post-discharge point, usually 80-180 days. Other instruments developed
by UDSMR include the WeeFIM® instrument and the LIFEware® instrument.
Functional
Outcomes
A
royalty-free license was given by UDSMR®
to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to include the FIM™
instrument as part of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment
Instrument (IRF-PAI) beginning January 2002. This data is required to
be collected at admission and discharge by all designated acute rehabilitation
facilities and submitted to CMS as part of their Prospective Payment System
(PPS). Follow-up data is currently not part of the system but remains
a critical component of outcomes for program evaluation, quality indicators,
accreditation, marketing and research.
MedTel Outcomes LLC offers over 20 years
of experience as the leader in telephone data collection of post-discharge
functional outcomes using the FIMTM instrument,
the WeeFIM® instrument and the LIFEware® instrument. Our clinicians assess
thousands of patients on a monthly basis.
MedTel Outcomes is
a licensed follow-up vendor with UDSMR®.
This provides your facility with the following benefits:
We also offer data collection on many other recognized instruments to provide facilities with data outcomes that meet their needs. |
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