Outcome Socio - Ecologic

The Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (ISIG) Subcommittee on Outcome (of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine) drafted the following statement at its meeting in June 1190: “Brain-injured persons have a capacity to function in the community.  Rehabilitation can increase the ability to contribute to society and reduce the negative socio-ecological consequences of brain injury.  We are committed to the reliable, valid measures of outcome that consider socio-ecological factors.  Outcome measure can be viewed from a variety of perspectives, including impairment, disability and handicap.  We recommend that in our Standards of Practice, we not limit measurement of outcome to the realms of impairment or disability.  We advocate for outcome measures to include the issue of handicap or the socio-ecological context so that we define outcome around individuals inside of a support system or context."