====== Functional outcome ======

Functional [[outcome]] distinguishes itself from [[clinical outcome]], focused instead of an individual’s recovery in areas such as vocational and social functioning rather than [[symptom]] resolution. 

Assessment of functional [[outcome]]s requires, first, a good working definition and, second, sufficiently reliable and valid measures from which to choose. With the advent of new or refined conceptualizations of patient outcomes, the functional domain has expanded to address not only routine activities of daily life but also the richly diverse aspects believed to constitute quality of life
((Frattali CM. Assessing functional outcomes: an overview. Semin Speech Lang.
1998;19(3):209-20; quiz 220-1. Review. PubMed PMID: 9720127.
)).

see Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended ([[GOSE]]); SWL: [[Satisfaction with Life Scale]] ([[SWLS]]).

===== Assesment =====
Assessment of [[Spinal cord injury outcome]] in the [[hospital]]

Level II: the Functional Impairment MeasureTM (FIMTM) is recommended 

Level III: the [[modified Barthel index]] is recommended
((Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Clinical assessment after acute cervical spinal cord injury. Neurosurgery. 2002; 50 Supplement:S21–S29)).

===== Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale =====
[[Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale]].

===== Modified Barthel index =====
[[Modified Barthel index]]