Quality resources

The AOTA Quality Team is here to provide information and resources to help you provide quality care! This page has links to helpful tools to use in your practice. If you have additional questions, please contact us at quality@aota.org.

Incorporating quality measures into your practice

Learn how to incorporate quality measures into your practice to improve client outcomes, provide efficient care, and demonstrate the value of occupational therapy.

Occupational therapy and hospital readmissions

Use our HOT Evidence Infographic to advocate for occupational therapy's role with decreasing hospital readmissions.

AOTA evaluation checklists

Use the AOTA evaluation checklists to support high-quality occupational therapy evaluations that lead to occupation-based, client-centered interventions.

CMS Care Compare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has launched Care Compare. This tool allows individuals to search for providers and facilities, compare CMS data for these providers and facilities, and make informed choices regarding health care needs.

CMS quality programs website

The CMS quality programs website provides information about CMS Quality Reporting Programs and Value-Based Care Programs. Quality measures are used to monitor quality and determine payment in some cases. Occupational therapy practitioners working in areas covered by these programs need to be aware of their details.

Volume to value

As payers and health systems move to emphasize value over volume, AOTA's Volume to Value webpage describes implications for practitioners in providing quality and value-based occupational therapy.

WFOT QUEST tool

The Quality Evaluation Strategy Tool (QUEST), created by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT), is a guide for occupational therapy practitioners to identify core quality indicators to monitor in their area of practice.