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Clinical effectiveness
Clinical effectiveness is the provision of high quality treatments or services in a way that allows the recipient(s) to achieve the maximum health gain. This will include the provision of interventions/services that are known to be effective (evidence-based practice), and providing those services within a system that allows the recipient to benefit to the maximum. This will include environmental, time courtesy, safety (risk management) - all aspects reflected in the CSP's Core Standards of Physiotherapy Practice.
What is clinical effectiveness?
Clinical effectiveness includes the provision of care in accordance with high quality evidence-based clinical guidelines. It also includes the evaluation of practice or services through the use, for example, of clinical audit or outcome measures, in order to further improve quality. It is sometimes reflected as the right person (competence) doing:
- the right thing (evidence based practice)
- in the right way (skills and competence)
- at the right time (providing treatment/services when the patients needs them)
- in the right place (location of treatment/services)
- with the right result (clinical effectiveness/maximising health gain)
It is the complete 'package' of patient experience, put in the context of basing practice on the 'best available evidence'.
Research & clinical effectiveness strategy 2004
The purpose of this revised and updated research and clinical effectiveness strategy is to set out the broad principles that the Society is committed to in its long-term planning, building on the overall aims of the CSP's 2005-10 strategy.
