ReviewJournal of rehabilitation medicine2023
Goal Attainment Scaling in rehabilitation: An educational review providing a comprehensive didactical tool box for implementing Goal Attainment Scaling.
Review in Journal of rehabilitation medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of goal attainment scaling implementation practices by caregivers in randomized controlled trials.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2024Pooled it
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- How Can We Improve the Assessment and Indifferent Outcomes From Pelvic Organ Prolapse Management From Conservative and Surgical Therapies? ICI-RS 2025.Neurourology and urodynamics · 2026Review
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- A qualitative study of the discrepancy between patient expectations and assessment practices in 5q-adult spinal muscular atrophy in France.Journal of neuromuscular diseases · 2026Article
- Advancing Neurological Rehabilitation: The BRAIN Framework for Clinical Reasoning in Neurophysiotherapy.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Observational
- Effects of Technology-Assisted Rehabilitation After Spinal Cord Injury: Pilot Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2025Article
- A multidisciplinary, cross-sectorial management program for people living with hand osteoarthritis (HANDY): protocol for a feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Goal attainment in PMM2-CDG: A new approach measuring meaningful clinical outcomes.Molecular genetics and metabolism · 2025Article
- Observational
- Clinician and Researcher Experiences with Goal Attainment Scaling: A Qualitative Study on Opportunities and Challenges for Personalized Outcome Assessments.Patient related outcome measures · 2025Article
- Goals in motion: exploring goal setting among adults living with HIV who participated in an online community-based exercise intervention.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- Motor and Cognitive Trajectories in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk of Cerebral Palsy Following a Community-Based Intervention.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Treatment of Acquired Deforming Hypertonia with Botulinum Toxin in Older Population: A Retrospective Study.Toxins · 2024Article
- Two-Year Results of a Five-Year Personalized Integrative Obesity Coaching Program (IBO) Based upon a Systems Health Perspective and an Evolutionary Longitudinal Study Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Functional outcomes following surgery for spastic hip adductor muscles in ambulatory and non-ambulatory adults.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Observational
- Training healthcare professionals to administer Goal Attainment Scaling as an outcome measure.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2024Article
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Abstract
contextGoal Attainment Scaling (GAS) is a person-centered and collaborative approach, allowing to assess the effectiveness of an intervention on personally relevant goals. However, GAS is not a "scale" but a heterogeneous group of methodologies, including many variations and lack of consensus on high quality GAS.
objectiveThe aim of this communication is to: 1. provide updated didactical information on GAS use in PRM practice and research; 2. increase awareness of GAS methodological challenges; 3. guide use of GAS as an integrated process of rehabilitation after goal setting and; 4. provide updated resources for self-directed learning and extensive supplemental material to increase knowledge and practical skills in GAS use.
methodsEducational literature review about current GAS applications relevant to PRM fields.
resultsPractical advice is provided regarding clinical challenges in GAS: definition of 0 level, time-frame and means employed to attain the goal, dealing with unforeseen pattern of improvement, synthesizing the numerous significations of "SMART" goal acronym to guide best use of GAS, and thinking flexibility on the type of relevant goals that can be set. Challenges with GAS in rehabilitation research are presented in order to promote researcher's and reviewer's awareness on reliable use of GAS and encouraging best-use of GAS.
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