Instructional Course

Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Health Services Research

IC19: Introduction to the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System: Principles and Applications in Research, Education, and Practice

Monday, November 7, 2022

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Presenter(s)

Jeanne Zanca, MPT, PhD, FACRM

IRB Chair/Assistant Director, Spinal Cord Injury Research
Kessler Foundation
West Orange, New Jersey, United States

Slides
Andrew Packel, PT, NCS

Locomotor Coordinator
MossRehab
Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, United States
Shanti M. Pinto, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UT-Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Dallas, Texas, United States
Susan E. Fasoli, ScD, OTR/L

Professor, Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sue Ann Sisto, PT, MA, PhD, FACRM

Professor and Chair
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, United States

This symposium will orient learners to the NIDILRR- and PCORI-funded Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS), an interprofessional standardized system for defining and specifying rehabilitation treatments. Examples of clinical treatments and case scenarios will be discussed to: (1) elucidate the structure, principles, and terminology of the RTSS; (2) facilitate reflection on active ingredients and targets of rehabilitation interventions; and (3) demonstrate how the RTSS can stimulate critical thinking and strengthen clinical reasoning underlying the planning and delivery of interventions. Learners will be provided opportunities to practice applying the RTSS to treatment scenarios that are relevant to their clinical, academic, and/or research work.

Learning Objectives:

Define key concepts that are part of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS, a formally developed procedure for specifying treatments), such as treatment theory, target, aim, ingredient, treatment component.
Gain experience using the RTSS to specify treatments.
Identify ways in which the basic concepts of the RTSS may be integrated into rehabilitation-related curricula.
Discuss how RTSS concepts can be used to support research design and reporting.
Describe strategies for using RTSS concepts to promote clinical reasoning.