How does FOTO check the quality of data being entered into the database?
Response: FOTO checks the validity of the data as best we can. One never knows if the answer to any question is the truth, if the person understood the question, if the person made a mistake responding to the question, etc. However, we have tested data entry validity many ways, and the results support that 90% of patients (n>75,000) have no clinical inconsistencies in their responses at intake, and 96% of the patients have no inconsistencies at discharge. Interestingly, when we follow those patients who we clinicians believe answered the questions with some clinically logical inconsistency, those same patients invariably answer the same question the same way at discharge! The probably of this happening by chance is very low! This implies we clinicians don’t really know what our patients are thinking or perceiving about their disabilities! That is supported by other non-FOTO literature. In our new CAT process, the computer checks the responses each patient provides in real time! The CAT
