[PDF] Current use of measurement instruments by physiotherapists working in Germany: a cross-sectional online survey | Semantic Scholar (2025)

The poor use of PROMs by musculoskeletal physiotherapists in Portugal was showed and the associated factors, barriers, and facilitators that should be considered to increase its future use by musculoskeletal physiotherapists in Portugal were identified.

A low implementation rate is revealed and the main barriers regarding the non-usage of standardized assessments for post COVID-19 patients are identified.

It was found that 78 percent of the study participants were using the outcome measures in the assessments of the patients and for finding the progression in their condition and the main facilitators are increased communication between physiotherapist and patient and enhanced the efficacy of assessment.

Standardised outcome measures are still not widely used by physiotherapists in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, and perceived barriers and facilitators could help to develop strategies to improve the systematic use of outcome measures in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa.

Among German physical therapists, the ReMoS guideline is not well-known and many interventions are not performed as recommended, illustrating the discrepancies between the Re MoS guideline recommendations and current physical therapy practice.

The rates for routine utilisation of SOMs by Namibian physiotherapists are unfavourable and the need to improve the routine utilisation of the SOMs in Namibia is called for.

Egyptian physiotherapists more usually utilize the pain disability index and back pain functional scale (PDI and BPFS), although they did not commonly use the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire or the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale.

Despite the small sample size, the data confirm the insufficient guideline use in German physical therapy and contribute results on practice patterns in outpatient stroke settings and will be used to initiate theory-based implementation strategies aiming to optimize physical therapy for people with stroke.

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Change that has occurred in Ireland in the use of standardized outcome measures are similar to those that have occurred in Canada, but barriers remain to their complete integration into clinical practice and clinical decision making.

Despite more than a decade of development and testing of standardized outcome measures appropriate for various conditions and practice settings, physical therapists have some distance to go in implementing their use routinely in most clinical settings.

Despite an almost uniformly positive attitude, physiotherapists infrequently use the outcome measures recommended in the CPGPS, and robust setting-specific tailored implementation strategies based on the reported barriers and facilitators are needed.

Time-consuming for patient and therapist, difficult to understand the SOMs by the patients were the main perceived barriers, and the majority of the participants showed the willingness to use SOMs in the future.

A systematic implementation plan was developed and evaluated for the systematic implementation of 2 measurement instruments frequently recommended in Dutch physical therapy clinical guidelines: the Patient-Specific Complaints instrument and the Six-Minute Walk Test.

The survey demonstrated quite widespread use of outcome assessments in routine clinical rehabilitation within the UK, with an encouraging level of common measurement in some areas of practice.

A master's degree and increased knowledge were statistically significant factors supporting increased use of outcome measures, but these factors explained only 22% of the variance in the logistic regression model.

It is clear that no one measure is suitable in all settings and services, but the most popular measures from this survey may reasonably form the basis for a 'basket of recommended instruments' that may help to guide units wishing to collect outcome data but not knowing which to choose.

This Australian-wide survey detected considerable heterogeneity in outcome measurement procedures used in rehabilitation environments, which highlights opportunities for harmonization, bench-marking and measurement of health-related quality of life.

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