A national survey to explore clinical data and outcome measure collection, storage, and use, within prosthetic rehabilitation services during implementation of the National Health Service England microprocessor controlled prosthetic knee clinical commissioning policy

Key Points

• This research aims to investigate how clinical data and outcome measures are captured and used in prosthetic rehabilitation services.
• Conducted a national survey on data collection practices in prosthetic rehabilitation.
• Analyzed variability in the administration of outcome measures (OMs).
• Identified operational and educational challenges in using routine health care data.
• Found inconsistencies in data types and collection methods for the microprocessor knee policy.
• Identified challenges affecting the clinical use of routine health data and OMs.
• Highlighted the need for standardization in future service provision policies.