Data for Impact reports – one of our Big 5 unique benefits

Through our tailor-made data collection project, together we can collect, record and view anonymised patient data that will be turned into valuable information on the outcomes of patient treatments.

The data collection tool, funded by the Private Physiotherapy Educational Foundation, has been developed in collaboration with the University of Brighton which now administers it.

To access this resource you can input your own anonymous patient information by using our short form online data collection tool.

Thanks to the participation of our members, Data for Impact is building up a wealth of ongoing patient data that we are analysing and collating into a national interim report. This is available to Physio First members every four months.

As a participating member you can use this growing bank of patient data to establish treatment outcomes and patient trends. 

We will send individual reports to participants who collect over 50 complete datasets and these can be used to support your Continued Professional Development training, or to apply for our new Quality Assured Practitioner kite mark.

As part of the QAP and QAC practitioners are required to be collecting patient recorded outcome measure (PROM) data from their patients using a validated PROM. Currently Physio First do not specify which PROM you use and do not require to see your PROM data.

For those of you who are not yet collecting PROM data from your patients then we invite you to consider using the Brighton MSK PROM (the BmPROM). This is an eight item validated PROM that is freely available for your use (in online or paper format), which takes patients less than 5 minutes to complete. Patients complete the BmPROM before the first treatment and after the final treatment. 

If you are already participating in the DfI study then you would have been sent a link with further instructions on how to access the BmPROM online. Please contact UoB team physiosurvey@brighton.ac.uk if you would like to use the BmPROM either in paper format or online 

There are also several validated PROMs freely available to use.

In order for your data to be counted towards QAP you need to collect PROM data.

You will have been sent login details to use the electronic version of the BmPROM when you signed up for DfI. 

The BmPROM is available HERE as a .pdf doc for you to download and use the paper version within your clinic if you are not able to use the electronic version, it is also available to download from the online DfI system under the Resources tab after you have logged in. 

At the moment Physio First are not specifying which PROM to use, but it does need to be a validated PROM. There are several which are also easily available on the internet:

• Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
• Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ)
• Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP)
• Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS)
• Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ)
  • The BmPROM is a 2-page questionnaire with 8 questions.
  • A scoring sheet explains how to measure these outcomes.
  • In addition, there are 4 optional supplementary questions for before and after treatment.
  • You may choose to include the supplementary questions which will give you additional information about your patient, but this information is not included in the BmPROM score.
  • The patient will need to complete the BmPROM at the beginning and the end of their course of treatment.