Identifying Instruments to Assess Care Quality for Individuals With Custom Ankle Foot Orthoses: A Scoping Review.

Objectives: We conducted 2 complementary scoping reviews to identify instruments that assess the experience and outcomes of custom ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) care in individuals with neurologic and traumatic conditions and to determine to what extent they might be psychometrically sound for AFO users. A stakeholder advisory committee considered to what extent the identified and psychometrically sound instruments might be feasible for use in developing quality measures for custom AFO users.

Data Sources: Both scoping reviews were conducted using PubMed, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, and Cochrane Systematic Reviews.

Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Quality-of-Care Topics for Users of Custom Ankle-Foot Orthoses.

Objective: As in all healthcare areas, there is a need to improve quality relevant to orthotic practice, but we lack information as to what aspects of healthcare quality are meaningful to measure. Thus, the objective was to identify issues that are important to the quality-of-care for people who use custom ankle-foot orthoses as identified by ankle-foot orthosis users, orthotists, and physical therapists.

Design: We conducted focus groups with custom ankle-foot orthosis users, orthotists, and physical therapists.

Orthotists' and physical therapists' perspectives on quality of care indicators for persons with custom ankle-foot orthoses.

: To describe the priorities of orthotists and physical therapists about quality measurement themes, and the feasibility and utility of collecting data from persons using custom AFOs that could inform quality measure development.: Online survey assessed respondents' perspectives and experiences. An Advisory Committee representing professional, organizational, and accreditor groups distributed survey invitations.