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Using the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System to Describe Evidence-based Treatments for Vocal Hyperfunction

Through didactic lectures and clinical case examples, participants will explore how to incorporate standard, evidence-based ingredient and target terminology from the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System into their clinical documentation.

Time to Complete: Self-paced
Format: Online
Course Starts: Begin Anytime
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As is common throughout rehabilitation, the assessment and treatment of voice disorders has made great progress in documenting changes in patient outcomes. However, much less progress has been made in detailing the therapy provided, i.e., what caused changes in outcomes. Inadequate treatment descriptions can impair communication across clinicians, patients’ understanding of the therapeutic process, identifying evidence-based practices, and reimbursement for services. The Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System can help improve therapy documentation because it provides (1) structured guidance on how to document treatment provided, and (2) a list of standard, evidence-based ingredients and targets in voice therapy.

Designed to be flexible for the busy healthcare professional, this course is 100% online and asynchronous. 


 

Designed for speech language pathologists who provide voice diagnostics and therapy.
 

  1. State the impact of inadequate treatment documentation on communication across clinicians, bridging the research to practice gap, reimbursement for services, and the patient’s role in therapy.
  2. Define the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System’s (RTSS) key concepts and terminology.
  3. Apply the RTSS concepts to real life voice therapy clinical case studies.
  4. Recognize how RTSS concepts apply to the clinician’s own treatments.
     

General Fee $80

MGB Employees, IHP Alumni and Employees who work at non-MGB affiliates are eligible for a 20% reduction in tuition on all our Continuing Education and Professional Development offerings (not fees). [$64 fee for this course]

Current MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP) faculty, adjuncts, term lecturers, staff & students are eligible for 40% off. [$48 fee for this course]

Course Faculty

Jarrad Van Stan, PhD, CCC-SLP

Jarrad Van Stan, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adjunct Assistant Professor Rehabilitation Sciences

Jarrad Van Stan, PhD, CCC-SLP

Learning Outcomes

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State

the impact of inadequate treatment documentation on communication across clinicians, bridging the research to practice gap, reimbursement for services, and the patient’s role in therapy.

illustration of two speaking bubbles overlapping

Define

the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System’s (RTSS) key concepts and terminology.

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Apply

the RTSS concepts to real life voice therapy clinical case studies.

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Recognize

how RTSS concepts apply to the clinician’s own treatments.

Continuing Education Credits

ahsa ce approved provider mgh institute of health professions dept of communication sciences and disorders intermediate level .4 asha ceus

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Financial Disclosures:

Jeremy Wolfberg receives a salary from Massachusetts General Hospital and grant funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Dr. Jared Van Stan receives a salary from Massachusetts General Hospital and grant funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Non-Financial Disclosures:

Jeremy Wolfberg is a member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Chair of the Implementation Assessment Task Force within the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification Networking Group.

Dr. Jared Van Stan is a member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Past Chair the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification Networking Group. Dr. Van Stan has appointments at Harvard Medical School and the MGH Institute of Health Professions.

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