Center for Outcomes & Measurement

Leadership

Name: Mary Jane "MJ" Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L, CPPC, CLCP, FASIA
Positions:
  • Interim Associate Dean of Research
  • Director, Center for Outcomes and Measurement
  • Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy

901 Walnut Street
Suite 642
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Core Functions & Services

  • Provide education and training in measurement methodologies and outcome measures for evaluating outcomes for individual clients, programs, and research interventions
  • Develop and validate contemporary and precise measurement methods and outcome instruments to address measurement gaps in rehabilitation research and practice
  • Provide consultation to students, faculty, and investigators on measurement and outcomes instruments
  • Build capacity for outcomes measurement and evaluation in human services organizations
  • Support sponsors of clinical trials and investigators of outcomes studies with selection of clinical trial outcome measures
  • Train investigators and clinical trial sites in the administration and scoring of outcome measures; establish competency and agreement among raters
  • Examine the efficacy and effectiveness of physical and behavioral rehabilitation strategies and technologies using psychometrically sound and relevant measurement tools
  • Develop and validate fidelity measures for interventions
  • Develop and implement methodological procedures to validate the life care plan as an accurate methodology  for estimating lifetime costs of persons living with chronic health conditions
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