AM-PAC, Evidence-based Practice and the Vision
Recently, the American Occupational Therapy Association endorsed Boston University's Activity Measure for Post Acute Care (AM-PAC), a tool to measure client outcomes in three categories of function-mobility, daily activities and cognition. The assessment will play a critical role in the development of AOTA's outcomes database, a project identified by the AOTA Board of Directors as a high priority in achieving the Centennial Vision, which foresees occupational therapy as a "science-driven and evidence-based profession."
For more information on the AM-PAC and the recent AOTA endorsement, check out this Q & A with AOTA's program director of evidence-based practice Deborah Lieberman, and Chuck Willmarth, AOTA's director of state affairs, and reimbursement and regulatory policy: http://www.aota.org/News/AOTANews/QA.aspx
The May 25 cover story of ADVANCE will take an in-depth look at the development of AOTA's outcomes database and the role that the AM-PAC will play in that endeavor.