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 outcomes 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 1).
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 2).