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What is the SF-36™?
- Standardized medical outcome questionnaire consisting of thirty-six questions in eight
subscales and two summary scales.
- Physical Functioning
- Role Physical
- Bodily Pain
- General Health
- Vitality
- Social Functioning
- Role Emotional
- Mental Health
- Subscale scores range from 1 to 100, so each individual receives a percentile score that
can be compared to ‘standardized’ scores.
- Self-administered test that takes 10 minutes to complete.
- Translated into five languages, and is used internationally to measure medical outcome.
Importance of SF-36™ applications in health care
- Medical decision-making
- Allocating scarce staff resources
- Measuring health care effectiveness (quality)
Advantages of BOSS™ SF-36™ applications
- Recognized leader in software for discharge planning and case management.
- Scanning software uses Teleform software, world leader in ICR (intelligent character
reading) technology.
- Our scanner is a powerful name brand scanner with an automatic document feeder for ease
of use. It has uses far beyond simply scanning Merlin forms!
- Our FaxOutComes service allows hospitals who do not want to purchase scanners and
software products to fax us completed SF-36™ questionnaires that we scan and return the
scores to the sender within five minutes.
Implications of the SF-36™ for Discharge Planners and Case Managers (both inpt and
outpt programs)
- Roughly eighty percent of hospital outlier costs are caused by twenty percent of
patients. If a way can be found to identify these patients and prevent future admissions
you can save lots of money.
- If you could market a simple and inexpensive way to offer this new technology to your
hospital you would be positioning yourself to take part in a new age of data analysis, and
dramatically enhance patient care delivery.
- If you had a "normative" database that would compare individual SF-36™
questionnaire scores to, you might be able to predict the relative risk of future
preventable admissions, or complications, for one particular patient. The potential
predictive value of a normative database, that only a group such as BOSS™ users can
create, is enormous.
Are BOSS™ SF-36™ products different from other vendors? Yes, and here is why:
- As mentioned, we use only industry leaders in hardware and software.
- We offer the MORE (Medical Outcomes Resource for the Elderly) questionnaire which is an
SF-36™ with social work questions added to make the tool more sensitive to older adults.
- Our products, such as the SlideGuide, are sold around the world and known as innovative,
powerful and inexpensive tools for outcome measurement.
- Merlin SF12™ and SF36™ software has NO equal in power and ease of use!
- Our FaxOutComes service is a unique and powerful way to introduce this new technology to
physicians and hospital administrators.
What are these products going to cost?
(Please See Our Order Form)
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