How many session physiotherapis deal in the shift ?

[albangsamori]

Salams Muhana

Im Madzhar a Filipino Physiotherapist working in Qatar. I have basically the same question that you are asking that is why I was eventually led to become a member of Physioforum (thanks by the way).

In my little search, what you are probably asking has something to do with the concept of patient acuity? Meaning, the amount of care the patient needs. There is a considerable amount of research concerning this issue in the Nursing profession. I am yet to find a study determining the patient acuity in relation to physiotherapy service.

In just about three hours, I found out that FIM (Functional Independence Measure) has been used by nurses to measure the amount of care the patient need while others used other measurement tools such as Northwick Park Dependency Score (NPDS).

In my understanding what you are asking is "How many treatment sessions does a physiotherapy perform in a single shift?" Or in other words, how many patients a therapist see per day. Right?

Believe me this is exactly what Im searching for as well. Many colleagues have already given their answers and it varies from what type of setting are you working in. Apparently it should vary from outpatient, community, in patient and Rehabilitation wards.

Here in Qatar, our hospital maintains an average of 8 (ranging from 7 to 10) patients per therapist per day regardless whether one is inpatient or outpatient. This I find a bit inappropriate given the level of PT care the patients need.

I hope I was able to help.

Al Madzhar Ahmadul

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[muhana85d]

Thank Mr. Madzhar

Like you, I did'nt find specific resource or research determine the time I could spend durig session and how many patient physiotherapist could deal

All answers was, Its depend on patint need