ORIDL

Outcome Related to Impact on Daily Living

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The challenge of finding practical, patient centred outcome measures is a key issue in the evaluation of health care interventions and systems. The ORIDL (Outcome in Relation to Impact on Daily Living) instrument * has been developed to measure patient's views of the outcome of their care. The key quality of the scale is allowing the person to asses their outcome by relating this to impact on their daily life.

ADVANTAGES

It was designed to be patient centred, and easy and quick to use in pressured clinical environments. The ‘threshold’ of +2 - indicating a useful link between the outcome and usefulness in daily life - this allows an intuitive grasp of both the clinical relevance of the result, and of its comparison with other assessments. It has also proven useful in a variety of research and outcome studies and in audit.

COMPARISONS

There is significant agreement between patient outcomes assessed by the ORIDL and other measures such as the EQOL transition scale, the MYMOP, and the PEI-outcome instrument, suggesting that the ORIDL may be a valid and sensitive tool for measuring change in relation to impact on life.

* (formerly referred to as the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital Outcomes Scale or GHHOS)