Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities.
Tim Riesen, Corban Remund, Aubrey Snyder
PMID 36189076WHAT IT FOUND
This paper proposes linking how employment programs are delivered to their results.
It does not test this approach or report patient outcomes. There is no evidence here to change clinical practice.
What this paper is
This is a conceptual article describing a framework for measuring employment support programs for individuals with the most significant disabilities. It discusses the need to link process measures (like fidelity to specific steps) with outcome measures, and outlines how this could be done using a customized employment framework. It reports no new patient data, no trial results, and no direct clinical interventions, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the proposed measurement framework as a validated clinical intervention. The paper describes how to measure programs but provides no data showing that using these measures improves patient outcomes.