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Measuring Clinical Outcomes

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Rethinking the Clinical Gaze

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Generating ‘robust evidence’ on the effectiveness of DBS in paediatric neurology is challenging. In order to overcome this, the team has adopted a patient-centred assessment tool from occupational therapy. This chapter argues that clinical assessment tools can be seen as constructed perceptual systems that create useful clinical knowledge by rendering patients intelligible according to differences in degree. Drawing on ethnographic data, the chapter follows team members as they construct a ‘domestic’ assessment space and deploy the patient-centred tool that directs the clinician’s gaze to the patient’s domestic body technique. The team’s adoption of such tools – which are important elements of the patient-centred proto-platform – reflects a general shift in many areas of clinical practice towards the measurement of the ‘social’ aspects of illness.

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    This is what Jesperson and colleagues (2014) have referred to as the care work that is required to produce objective facts; the emotional labour required to ensure the compliance of patients, so that data can be extracted from their bodies.

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Gardner, J. (2017). Measuring Clinical Outcomes. In: Rethinking the Clinical Gaze. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53270-7_7

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