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Measuring physiotherapy outcomes

List of peer reviewed papers and other documents containing information about, descriptions of experiences with, and opinions of TELER

The list contains the documents known to TELER Limited, and is not necessarily complete.  The documents consist of


Books

Barnard,S and Hartigan, G (1998) Clinical Audit in Physiotherapy: From Theory into Practice, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, pp 82-3 and 94-7

Tado Imagawa (2000) Yesterday's Babies, Today's Children, Tomorrow's Adults, Chapter 5 "Future tasks of the caring system", Section 1 "Outcome measures: Towards evidence based intervention", Miwa Publishing Company, Tokyo (Written in Japanese)

Rennie,Jeanette, Ed (2001) Learning Disability: Physical Therapy, Treatment and Management; A collaborative approach, Whurr, London, pp 132, 140-41, 142, 197 and 276

Dealey, Carol (2006) The Care of Wounds: A Guide for Nurses, Blackwell, Oxford, pp 61-2 and 63


Journal papers

Le Roux, A A (1993) " TELER: The Concept" Physiotherapy, 79, 11, pp 755-58

Mawson, Susan J and McCreadie, Michele J (1993) " TELER: The Way Forward" Physiotherapy, 79, 11, pp 758-61

Mawson, Susan J (1993) "Measuring Physiotherapy Outcome in Stroke Rehabilitation" Physiotherapy, 79, 11, pp 762-5

Zinober, Brenda W (1995) "Which Outcome Measure?" Physiotherapy, 81, 4, pp 185-6

Grocott, P (1997) "Evaluation of a tool used to assess the management of fungating wounds" Journal of Wound Care, 6, 9, pp 421-4

Buri, Helen (1997) "A group programme to prevent falls in elderly hospital patients" British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 4, 10, pp 550-6

Grocott, P (1998) "Exudate management in fungating wounds", Journal of Wound Care, 7, 9, pp 445-8

Alderman, Nick, Bentley, Judith and Dawson, Keith (1999) "Issues Regarding Behavioural Outcome Measurement Undertaken by a Specialised Service Provider" Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 9 (3/4), pp 385-400

Rosen, Nick and Brock, Judy (2000) "The West Midlands Therapy Outcome Collaboration" Journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Management, 32, Winter/ Spring, pp 15-17

Bentley J (2001) "A physiotherapy perspective on the dilemmas of outcome measurement in severe and complex brain injury rehabilitation: Can TELER help to match the Government's expectations?" Physiotherapy, 87(11): pp 593-99

Grocott P, Cowley S (2001) "The palliative management of fungating malignant wounds - generalising from multiple-case study data using a system of reasoning" International Journal of Nursing Studies 38: pp 533-45

Grocott P, Richardson A, Ambaum B, Kearney N, Redmond K (2002) "Nursing in Colorectal Cancer Initiative - the audit phase. Part 1. Development of the" European Journal of Oncology Nursing 5(2): 100-111

Grocott P, Richardson A, Ambaum B, Kearney N, Redmond K (2002) "Nursing in Colorectal Cancer Initiative - the audit phase. Part 2. Content validity of the audit tool and implications of the standards set for clinical practice" European Journal of Oncology Nursing 5(3): 165-173

Mawson, S (2002) " TELER versus MAS: Validating TELER indicator definitions for use in the measurement of physiotherapy outcomes in acute stroke rehabilitation" Physiotherapy, 88, 2, pp 67-76

Grocott P, Cowley S and Richardson A (2002) "Solving Methodological Challenges Using a Theory-driven Evaluation in the Study of Complex Patient Care" Evaluation, 8, 3, pp 306-21

Grocott P, Browne N and Richardson A (2004) "Palliative wound care: Optimising the use of classification systems" Polska medycyna Paliatywna, 3, 1, pp 45-56

Browne N and others (2004) "Wound Care Research for Appropriate Products: Validation of the TELER method involving users" International Journal of Nursing Studies, 41(5): pp 559-71

Browne N and others (2004) "The TELER System in Wound Care Research and Post Market Surveillance" EWMA Journal, 4, 1, 26-32

Grocott P, Browne N and Cowley S (2005)  "Quality of Life: Assessing the Impact and Benefits of Care to Patients with Fungating Wounds"  WOUNDS; 17 (1):8-15

Mawson, S (2005)  "Evidence based practice is more than a research-based hierarchy " Syn’apse;  Autumn/Winter 2005, p 26-9

Young, C V (2005)  "The effects of malodorous fungating malignant wounds on body image and quality of life " Journal of Wound Care, 14, 8, pp 359-62

Scott E (2006)  "Functional electrical stimulation for the enhancement of gait in subjects with incomplete spinal chord injury"  (abstract of conference poster presentation),  Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair; 20, 1,

Mawson, S (2006)  "Saint or Sinner: The randomised controlled trial" Syn’apse; Spring 2006, p 27-30

Adderley, Una (2006)  "Wound care: should healing always be the aim?  " Nursing in Practice, Jan/Feb 2006, pp 73-76

Knowles K, Hutchison C, Smith G, Philp I D, McCormick K, Preston E (2008)  "Implementation of a pilot education programme in colorectal cancer management in Scotland " Nurse Education Today, 28, 1, pp 15-23


World wide web papers

Grocott, P (2001) "Developing a tool for researching fungating wounds", World Wide Wounds, www.worldwidewounds.com/2001/july/Grocott/FungatingWounds.html


Book reviews

Matsuo Shinpo (1999) "Mawson S: TELER Normal Movement Indicators" Journal of the Japan Bobath Association (Written in Japanese)


Funded research report

Yasushi Ando (1998) Outcome Measures The National Horse Racing Welfare Foundation, Tokyo (Written in Japanese)


News items

Physiotherapy Pilot launched to measure treatment outcomes, The News, April 1995, Health Waikato

TELER method selected by working party, Frontline, May 1, 1996, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists

Outcome measurement in stroke rehabilitation, Health Research Institute Newsletter, June 1996, Sheffield Hallam University

TELER as an outcome measure, Frontline, July 3, 1996, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists

TELER audit and outcome measures review, Occupational Therapy News, April 1997, College of Occupational Therapists

Call for Physios to share TELER experiences, Frontline, July 16, 1997, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists

Heidi Bowcher "The Use of TELER with Progressive Conditions in Community Rehabilitation" NANOT NEWS, Winter 2000, p 9-10

Dolly Chadda "Indicators for success" Frontline, October 4, 2000, Feature


Conference paper presentations

TELER: An Illustration, Bunny le Roux, Association of Chief Chiropody Officers National Conference 1994, Nottingham

Audit in Measuring Physiotherapy Outcome in Stroke Rehabilitation, Sue Mawson, World Congress of Physiotherapy - Europe, 1994, Copenhagen

The TELER Indicator, Bunny le Roux, Physiotherapy Society Workshop Meeting, 1995, Edinburgh

TELER Indicators or Barthel Index: A Validation Study, Sue Mawson, Physiotherapy Research Society Workshop Meeting, 1995, Edinburgh

Treatment Evaluation by the Le Roux Method ( TELER), Bunny le Roux, A Successful Outcome?, South and West Regional Health Authority, 1995, Bristol

When Is a Measurement Not a Measurement?, Bunny le Roux, New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Biennial Conference, 1996, Dunedin

TELER and Clinical Practice, Bunny le Roux, New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Biennial Conference, 1996, Dunedin

The TELER Indicator, Bunny le Roux, New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Biennial Conference, 1996, Dunedin

The TELER System of Outcome Measurement in the Stroke Unit: A Pilot Study, M D'Souza and P Friedman, New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Biennial Conference, 1996, Dunedin

Measuring the Outcome of Stroke Rehabilitation: A Validation Study, Sue Mawson, World Congress of Physiotherapy - Europe, 1996, Eastbourne

TELER, Bunny le Roux, World Congress of Physiotherapy - Europe, 1996, Eastbourne

TELER, Bunny le Roux, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists for people with Learning Disabilities Annual Conference, 1997, Birmingham

Trial of the TELER System for the Community Neurological Population, Julie Vaughan, Helen Morris and Melanie Flitt, Ontario Physiotherapy Association Conference 1999

A Comparison of Six Outcome Measures, Morag Davies, College of Occupational Therapy Annual Conference, 1999, Liverpool

Dressings Used in Palliative Wound Care, Patricia Grocott, World Union of Wound Healing Societies, Paris, 2004

Quality of Life in wound care: Assessing the impact and benefits of care to patients with fungating wounds, Patricia Grocott, World Union of Wound Healing Societies, Paris, 2004


Conference poster presentations

Trial of the TELER System for the Community Neurological Population, Julie Vaughan, Helen Morris and Melanie Flitt, Ontario Physiotherapy Association Conference 1999, Ontario, Canada

Regional Initiative to Develop the Use of Qualitative Outcome Measures, Nick Rosen and Judy Brock, Partnership for Developing Quality Conference 2000, Birmingham

An introduction to the TELER system: A way of measuring functional outcome of physiotherapy for people with severe developmental disabilities, Yoshihiro Kinoshita, Conference of the Japan Physical Therapy Association 2003, Nagano, Japan

An application of TELER: An example of making goal settings and clinical evaluation of paediatric physiotherapy, Yuichi Yoshida, Conference of the Japan Physical Therapy Association 2003, Nagano, Japan

Measuring the outcome of rehabilitation on the gait pattern of spinal chord injury patients: A comparison of two observational methods, E Scott and S J Mawson, International Symposium on Measurement and Evaluation of Outcomes in Rehabilitation, Stockholm

Woundcare Research for Appropriate Products - Analysis of a natural sample of exuding chronic wounds, Carol Dealey and others, Wounds - UK 2004, Harrogate

Woundcare Research for Appropriate Products - Presentation of the TELER system for chronic wound care evaluation, Kathryn Vowden and others, Wounds - UK 2004, Harrogate

Woundcare Research for Appropriate Products - Presentation of the TELER system of data analysis: The TELER Index, Patricia Grocott and others, Wounds - UK 2004, Harrogate

An evaluation of health status measures in lower limb trauma, Maria Burton, Stephen Walters, Michael Salah and John Brazier, International Symposium on Measurement and Evaluation of Outcomes in Rehabilitation, Stockholm, 2004

Measurement of functional change in ambulant Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) boys, Elaine Scott, 4th Meeting in Paediatric Neuro-muscular Rehabilitation, Denmark, 2006

Functional electrical stimulation for the enhancement of gait in subjects with incomplete spinal chord injury, Elaine Scott, World Congress for NeuroRehabilitation, Hong Kong, 2006


National Health Service

(a) National reports

Good Practice: A Directory of Developments in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech & Language Therapy Services, 1998

(b) Local reports

Evaluating the Efficacy of Physiotherapy

Multi-disciplinary and Single Profession Evaluation of Treatment

Multi-disciplinary Clinical Audit Using TELER

A Report Identifying why TELER would be a Suitable Outcome Measure for the Younger Disabled Unit

Summary Report on Physiotherapy Work Completed or in Progress

Projects under way using TELER evaluation system

TELER: Report on Temporary Licence

Clinical Audit Report: To evaluate TELER as a clinical audit tool in goal setting and goal attainment

A project to conduct a clinical audit in physiotherapy mental health services using the TELER system

(c) Research reports

Teaching Inhaler Techniques to Elderly Patients with Chronic Respiratory Problems

Dietetic Intervention in Asymptomatic HIV Disease

Fall prevention in elderly hospital patients

(d) Clinical audit reports

Smith, Christine and Lea, Karen (1996) Clinical Audit Report: To eval-uate TELER as a clinical audit tool in goal setting and goal attainment Wigan & Leigh Health Services NHS Trust, Taylor Rehabilitation Service


MSc project reports

Janet Fowler (1994) "A clinician's critique and evaluation of three methods of investigating discomfort associated with work-related neck and upper limb disorders in a workplace setting: A pilot study using RULA,  a standardised NORDIC question-naire and TELER" Coventry University

Christine Smith (1995) "To compare and contrast the clinical usefulness of two methods of clinical note making in a group of patients with multiple sclerosis" University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Juliet Weston (1996) "A comparison of POMR and TELER as tools for measuring outcomes in physiotherapy" University of Salford

Lynne Peters (1997) "A study of the interrater reliability of TELER" Manchester University

Julie Childs (2000) "A Clinical Audit" Sheffield Hallam University

Wendy Browne (2001)  "A Clinical Audit of the use of TELER in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit"  Sheffield Hallam University

Davina Brazier (2002) "Physiotherapists' attitudes towards the TELER system of outcome measurement" University of Brighton

Gillian Bamborough (2003) "A Study of the Use of TELER in Providing Data from Physiotherapy Treatment for a Neurological Outpatient" Sheffield Hallam University

Neil Irvine (2003) " TELER Outcome Measure: A Retrospective Analysis of an Acute Back Pain Service" Sheffield Hallam University

Linda Strachan (2003) "A Report Detailing the Clinical Audit carried out to Assess the Inter-rater Reliability of Senior and Junior Physiotherapists when Observing Abnormal Movement in Stroke Patients

Suzanne Helliwell (2004)  "A Report to Detail the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Physiotherapy Service on the Stroke Unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital through Analysis of the TELER Outcome Measure"  Sheffield Hallam University

Margaret Armour (2005)  "Using TELER as a Method of Measuring Outcomes of Physiotherapy Intervention with Patients Following Open Abdominal Surgery"  Sheffield Hallam University

Sarah Hill (2005)  "An Evaluation of the Serial Casting Service provided for Children who present with Ideopathic Toe-Walking, using TELER"  Sheffield Hallam University

Rita Newland (2005)  "Pilot study to develop a method for investigating health visitor decisions and judgements made during the new birth home visit"  King’s College London


MSc/MPhil/PhD theses in preparation

Sarah Cook "Meeting the needs of people with severe mental health problems" University of Sheffield

Sheila Mann "A study to determine the usefulness (as an outcome measure, audit tool, method of note writing) of TELER following physiotherapy intervention after stroke" University of Otago, New Zealand

Ian Davidson "Do first time stroke patients on a rehabilitation unit benefit from a specific, structured programme at weekends when administered by non-therapists?" Department of Nursing, University of Manchester


MSc/Mphil/PhD theses accepted

Susan Mawson (1997) "The recovery of function during physiotherapy: A theoretical basis for stroke rehabilitation" Sheffield Hallam University PhD

Patricia Grocott (1999) "The management of fungating wounds" Kings College London PhD

Ellen Hryer (1999) "A reliability study of `the TELER Normal Movement Indicators'.  An investigation of stroke patients according to the Bobath concept" University of Bergen, Norway

Louise FitzPatrick (2001) "The efficacy of the neuro-developmental therapy approach in school-going children with cerebral palsy" University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, MSc

Elaine Scott (2003) "On the effects of functional electrical stimulation upon spasticity and gait in the incomplete spinal cord injured?" Sheffield Hallam University Mphil

Natasha Campling (2006)  "Disconnection: A Grounded Theory of the User Voice in the Wound Dressing Supply Chain" , King’s College London, University of London, PhD

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