The dissertation defense will be open and held virtually.
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The Department of Clinical Research and Leadership and the PhD in Translational Health Sciences Program is proud to announce the final Dissertation Defense of:
PhD Candidate: Jennifer Weaver
Translating Assessments into Practice Using Patient-Centered Measurement Principles: An Exemplar using the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised
Dissertation Committee Chair: Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L
Communication about treatment of patients with DoC is often inhibited because family caregivers and rehabilitation practitioners do not interpret recovery of consciousness in the same way. Incorporating person-centered measurement principles into how assessment results are shared between and within key stakeholders’, rehabilitation practitioners’ and family caregivers’, may facilitate shared treatment decision-making. The long-term objective of this research is to facilitate shared decision making in treatment planning between rehabilitation practitioners and the family caregivers of individuals with DoC following a severe brain injury.