OT and Shifting Values

04/19/20 • 13 min

OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs

We OTs are navigating an ever-changing maze of legislation, reimbursement, and care-delivery models.

But, this week’s article calls us to focus on our profession’s most important relationship of all: our relationship with our clients.

Get ready to really ponder the nature of our partnerships with clients...and to consider these relationships in terms like trust and vulnerability.

The researchers held focus groups that examined how patient/provider relationships are changing due to both parties' reliance on the internet for answers. The results are fascinating.
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Townsend, A., Leese, J., Adam, P., Mcdonald, M., Li, L. C., Kerr, S., & Backman, C. L. (2015). eHealth, Participatory Medicine, and Ethical Care: A Focus Group Study of Patients’ and Health Care Providers’ Use of Health-Related Internet Information. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(6). doi: 10.2196/jmir.3792
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We OTs are navigating an ever-changing maze of legislation, reimbursement, and care-delivery models.

But, this week’s article calls us to focus on our profession’s most important relationship of all: our relationship with our clients.

Get ready to really ponder the nature of our partnerships with clients...and to consider these relationships in terms like trust and vulnerability.

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OT, Sensory Differences, and Psychosis

During this time of COVID-19, we OTs are doing what we do best: being adaptable. In this case, a global pandemic has us reimagining what our therapy can look like.

It is our hope that the OT Potential Club can help you do that in a proactive way.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at research that highlights new opportunities to reach our patients and improve outcomes.

This week’s article fits well in that theme.

It calls us back to a basic principle: part of our role is to intervene early in the disease process, ideally helping to prevent some of the most worrisome disease symptoms.

This week, we are looking at an article about psychosis which, frankly, is one of the most challenging symptoms that can present with many mental illnesses.

But, there’s good news:
Research indicates that it’s possible to identify those at high risk for psychosis—and even reduce the number of people who experience a full-blown episode.

And, in this brand-new study, you’ll see how an assessment that many OTs are accustomed to administering—The Sensory Profile—may not only help guide early identification of at-risk youth, but also help inform subsequent treatment.
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Parham, L. D., Roush, S., Downing, D. T., Michael, P. G., & Mcfarlane, W. R. (2019). Sensory characteristics of youth at clinical high risk for psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 13(2), 264–271. doi: 10.1111/eip.12475
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OT Reduces Hospital Readmissions! (And, in a Cost-Effective Way!)

My first thought after I read this article was that I need to share it with our hospital’s CEO. This is exactly the kind of article that I want our administrators and leaders to be reading.

My second thought was that every OT needs a copy of this article to display on their desk like an inspirational poster :-)

It’s that huge.

This is the largest (and most important, in my opinion) study we’ve examined so far in the Club. The authors analyzed data from 1,194,251 Medicare patients, and they found that OT was the only category of spending where higher investment led to lower readmission rates across three different diagnoses: heart failure, pneumonia, and acute myocardial infarction.
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Rogers, A. T., Bai, G., Lavin, R. A., & Anderson, G. F. (2016). Higher Hospital Spending on Occupational Therapy Is Associated With Lower Readmission Rates. Medical Care Research and Review, 74(6), 668–686. doi: 10.1177/1077558716666981
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