ABSTRACT
Assessment of patient functioning is done for three main reasons: diagnosis, prognosis and evaluation (Tate, Goubec and Sigmundsdottir, 2013). In this chapter the focus is on outcome measurement in relation to intervention evaluation. Measuring the outcome of health care is ‘a central component of determining therapeutic effectiveness and, therefore, the provision of evidence-based healthcare’ (Van der Putten et al., 1999, pp. 480–484). Information regarding the outcome of neuropsychological rehabilitation is not only important for researchers, clinicians, managers and policy makers, but especially for the patients and their families. Neuropsychologists often conduct extensive testing during pre-treatment assessment, but in clinical practice it is less common to measure outcome systematically after treatment.
