AM-PAC®

ADMINISTRATION

Short Forms

 AM-PAC® short forms can be used to administer AM-PAC® Basic Mobility, Daily Activity and Applied Cognitive items. Short Forms were developed for different settings and applications (i.e., Inpatient Low function, Acute Hospital, Home Care, Outpatient, Community Mobility). Items are carefully selected to match the level of function of patients in a specific care setting.

Computerized Adaptive Tests (CATS)

The AM-PAC® CAT is used to customize item selection to match each person’s ability. Mobility, Daily Activity and Applied Cognitive item banks are administered using a computer-based algorithm selects a small subset of items to administer to a patient from each AM PAC item bank based on the patient’s response to previous items. CAT requires point of care computer access.

AM-PAC®

OVERVIEW

The AM-PAC is a generic measure of a patient’s function that can be used across an entire episode of care, from acute and post acute care settings and across different patient conditions (eg. musculoskeletal, neurologic, major medical).It can be administered using either patient or proxy report and has been shown to be practical yet psychometrically appropriate for clinical and research applications.

AM-PAC®

INTENDED POPULATION

The AM-PAC® is designed for examining functional outcomes over an episode of post acute care, as patients move across institutional and community-based care settings. The AM-PAC is validated for use with post acute care patients with major medical, orthopedic, and neurologic impairments. It has been tested in many mixed populations including:

Acute hospital
Inpatient rehabilitation
Post-acute care
Hip fracture
Stroke
Cancer
Older patients
Lower extremity orthopedic impairments
Upper extremity orthopedic impairments
Medically complex cases

AM-PAC®

Functional Domains

The AM-PAC® consists of 269 specific items that assess a patient’s ability in three different areas of function or domains:

131
Basic Mobility Items
88
Daily Activities Items
50
Applied Cognitive Items
AM-PAC®

AUTHORS

Alan Jette, PT, PhD
Stephen M. Haley, PT, PhD
Wendy Coster, OT, PhD
Peng Sheng Ni, MD, MPH